Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Virtualization

Timestamp:

Nov 14, 2006 5:10:14 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

jose

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Virtualization

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  * '''Operating system support.''' With a virtualizer such as !VirtualBox, one can run software written for one operating system on another (say, Windows software on Linux) without having to reboot.
 
- * '''Infrastructure consolidation.''' Since the full performance of today's computers are rarely needed full-time, instead of running many such physical computers, one can "pack" many virtual machines onto a few powerful hosts and balance the loads between them. This can save a lot of hardware costs: e.g. by consolidating many servers into a few. !VirtualBox is unique on the virtualization market in that it also allows for consolidating clients onto just a few RDP servers, with full client USB support, while "thin clients" only need to display RDP data.
+ * '''Infrastructure consolidation.''' Since the full performance of today's computers is rarely needed full-time, instead of running many such physical computers, one can "pack" many virtual machines onto a few powerful hosts and balance the loads between them. This can save a lot of hardware costs: e.g. by consolidating many servers into a few. !VirtualBox is unique on the virtualization market in that it also allows for consolidating clients onto just a few RDP servers, with full client USB support, while "thin clients" only need to display RDP data.
 
  * '''Testing and disaster recovery.''' Especially with the use of [wiki:"snapshots"], one can mess with a computing environment by running it as a virtual machine. If something goes wrong, one can easily switch back to a previous snapshot and avoid the need of frequent backups and restores.