Virtualization Flashcards
What shared resources virtual machines use?
CPU Memory Network Storage
What is virtual machine consist of?
Live state and VM files
What is vNIC?
virtual Network Interface Card
VM conversion tools
VMware vCenter Converter Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Citrix XenConvert
How the virtual storage works?
SCSI(сказі) command➡️SCSI controller➡️ hypervisor➡️storage adapter➡️virtual disk file or datastore
How the virtual network works?
vNIC➡️vSwitch➡️pNIC➡️pServer v - virtual p- physical
Benefits of virtualization
consolidation efficiency mobility( easy migrating VMs between hosts)
Benefits of Virtualization
Consilidation Efficiency Mobility
Types of hypervisors
Type 1(bare-metal) installed on top of a physical server, includes 2 layers: hardware and hypervisor with guest OSs Type 2(Hosted) includes 3 layers:hardware, host OS and hypervisor wih guest OSs
Hypervisors type 1
VMware
Hyper-V
XenServer
Hypervisors type 2
VMware Workstation
Virtual Server
Virtual Box
Fusion(on MAC)
What is SCSI?
SCSI (usually pronounced “scuzzy”) stands for Small Computer System Interface, and is the oldest type of interface used for attaching peripheral devices to computers. Almost all PCs, Apple Macintosh computers and other UNIX systems used these connectors to connect server motherboardswith the hard drives and transfer data to and from them.