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Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Virtualization in cloud computing is the creation of virtual versions of physical resources, allowing multiple users to share a single instance. It includes types such as hardware, operating system, server, and storage virtualization, each serving different purposes like testing, load balancing, and backup. Virtualization is crucial for cloud providers to efficiently manage applications and infrastructure, enabling cost-effective resource sharing and maintenance.

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Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Virtualization in cloud computing is the creation of virtual versions of physical resources, allowing multiple users to share a single instance. It includes types such as hardware, operating system, server, and storage virtualization, each serving different purposes like testing, load balancing, and backup. Virtualization is crucial for cloud providers to efficiently manage applications and infrastructure, enabling cost-effective resource sharing and maintenance.

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Virtualization in Cloud

Computing
Virtualization is the "creation of a virtual (rather than
actual) version of something, such as a server, a
desktop, a storage device, an operating system or
network resources".
In other words, Virtualization is a technique, which allows
to share a single physical instance of a resource or an
application among multiple customers and organizations.
It does by assigning a logical name to a physical storage
and providing a pointer to that physical resource when
demanded.

What is the concept behind the


Virtualization?
Creation of a virtual machine over existing operating
system and hardware is known as Hardware
Virtualization. A Virtual machine provides an
environment that is logically separated from the
underlying hardware.
The machine on which the virtual machine is going to
create is known as Host Machine and that virtual
machine is referred as a Guest Machine

Types of Virtualization:
1. Hardware Virtualization.
2. Operating system Virtualization.
3. Server Virtualization.
4. Storage Virtualization.
1) Hardware Virtualization:
When the virtual machine software or virtual machine
manager (VMM) is directly installed on the hardware
system is known as hardware virtualization.
The main job of hypervisor is to control and monitoring
the processor, memory and other hardware resources.
After virtualization of hardware system we can install
different operating system on it and run different
applications on those OS.
Usage:
Hardware virtualization is mainly done for the server
platforms, because controlling virtual machines is much
easier than controlling a physical server.

2) Operating System Virtualization:


When the virtual machine software or virtual machine
manager (VMM) is installed on the Host operating
system instead of directly on the hardware system is
known as operating system virtualization.
Usage:
Operating System Virtualization is mainly used for testing
the applications on different platforms of OS.

3) Server Virtualization:
When the virtual machine software or virtual machine
manager (VMM) is directly installed on the Server
system is known as server virtualization.
Usage:
Server virtualization is done because a single physical
server can be divided into multiple servers on the
demand basis and for balancing the load.

4) Storage Virtualization:
Storage virtualization is the process of grouping the
physical storage from multiple network storage devices
so that it looks like a single storage device.
Storage virtualization is also implemented by using
software applications.
Usage:
Storage virtualization is mainly done for back-up and
recovery purposes.

How does virtualization work in cloud


computing?
Virtualization plays a very important role in the cloud
computing technology, normally in the cloud computing,
users share the data present in the clouds like
application etc, but actually with the help of virtualization
users shares the Infrastructure.
The main usage of Virtualization Technology is to
provide the applications with the standard versions to
their cloud users, suppose if the next version of that
application is released, then cloud provider has to
provide the latest version to their cloud users and
practically it is possible because it is more expensive.
To overcome this problem we use basically virtualization
technology, By using virtualization, all severs and the
software application which are required by other cloud
providers are maintained by the third party people, and
the cloud providers has to pay the money on monthly or
annual basis.

Conclusion
Mainly Virtualization means, running multiple operating
systems on a single machine but sharing all the
hardware resources. And it helps us to provide the pool
of IT resources so that we can share these IT resources
in order get benefits in the business.

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