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Virtualization

Virtualization

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Virtualization

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- [Instructor] In chapter two, I explained virtualization, the foundational technology of cloud computing. Let's review some of the key points from that chapter. (whooshing) Virtualization allows an organization to run many different virtual servers on the same shared hardware. Virtualization allows the pooling of resources to satisfy the greatest possible amount of computing demand at the lowest possible cost. (whooshing) In a virtualized environment, the host machine has physical hardware resources: processors, memory, storage, and networking. (whooshing) That hardware then hosts several or many virtual guest machines that run operating systems of their own. (whooshing) The host machine runs special software known as a hypervisor. The hypervisor manages the guest virtual machines. There are two different types of hypervisors. (odd sound playing) In a type-one hypervisor, also known as a bare-metal hypervisor, the…

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