What are the benefits of virtualization?
1. Partitioning • Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system • Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture • Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner 2. Isolation • Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected • Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections 3.
