Purposes of VMs Flashcards
Manages the distribution of the physical resources of a server to the VMs
Hypervisor
Bare Metal
Type I Hypervisor
Hosted
Type II Hypervisor
▪ Each relies on a common host OS as the base for each
▪ Has less resources because it doesn’t
require its own copy of the OS for individual
Container-Based Virtualization (Containerization)
Allows for the full integration of the storage, network, and servers
without hardware changes
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Encapsulates computer programs from the underlying OS on which they are executed
Application Virtualization
Hosts desktop OSs within a virtualized environment hosted by a
centralized server or server farm
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
An isolated environment for analyzing pieces of malware
Sandbox
Allows for the testing and running of software applications for different
operating systems
Cross-Platform Virtualization
System imitation
Emulation
New “physical” machine
Virtualization