Virtualization in Cloud

Computing
 Introduction
• Virtualization is a technique of how to separate a service
from the underlying physical delivery of that service.
• It is the process of creating a virtual of something like
computer hardware.
• It was initially developed during the mainframe era.
• It involves using specialized software to create a virtual
or software-created version of a computing resource
rather than the actual version of the same resource.
• With the help of virtualization, multiple operating
systems and applications can run on the same machine
and its same hardware at the same time, increasing the
utilization and flexibility of hardware.
• In other words, one of the main cost-effective
hardware-reducing, and energy-saving techniques
used by cloud providers is virtualization.
• Virtualization allows sharing of a single physical
instance of a resource or an application among
multiple customers and organizations at one time.
• It does this by assigning a logical name to physical
storage and providing a pointer to that physical
resource on demand.
• The term virtualization is often synonymous
with hardware virtualization, which plays a
fundamental role in efficiently delivering
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions for
cloud computing.
• Moreover, virtualization technologies provide
a virtual environment for not only executing
applications but also for storage, memory, and
networking.
• Host Machine: The machine on which the
virtual machine is going to be built is known as
Host Machine.
• Guest Machine: The virtual machine is
referred to as a Guest Machine.
 Benefits of Virtualization
• More flexible and efficient allocation of
resources.
• Enhance development productivity.
• It lowers the cost of IT infrastructure.
• Remote access and rapid scalability.
• High availability and disaster recovery.
• Pay per use of the IT infrastructure on demand.
• Enables running multiple operating systems.
 Drawback of Virtualization
• High Initial Investment:
• Learning New Infrastructure:
• Risk of Data
 Characteristics of Virtualization
• Increased Security
• Managed Execution
• Sharing
• Aggregation
 Types of Virtualization
1. Application Virtualization
2. Network Virtualization
3. Desktop Virtualization
4. Storage Virtualization
5. Server Virtualization
6. Data virtualization
 1. Application Virtualization
• Application virtualization helps a user to have
remote access to an application from a server.
• The server stores all personal information and
other characteristics of the application but can still
run on a local workstation through the internet.
• An example of this would be a user who needs to
run two different versions of the same software.
• Technologies that use application virtualization are
hosted applications and packaged applications.
 2. Network Virtualization:
• The ability to run multiple virtual networks with each
having a separate control and data plan.
• It co-exists together on top of one physical networks.
• It can be managed by individual parties that are
potentially confidential to each other.
• Network virtualization provides a facility to create and
provision virtual networks, logical switches, routers,
firewalls, load balancers, Virtual Private Networks
(VPN), and workload security within days or even
weeks.
 3. Desktop Virtualization:
• Desktop virtualization allows the user’s OS to be
remotely stored on a server in the data center.
• It allows the user to access their desktop virtually,
from any location by a different machine.
• Users who want specific operating systems other
than windows server will need to have a virtual
desktop.
• The main benefits of desktop virtualization are user
mobility, portability, and easy management of
software installation, updates, and patches.
 4. Storage Virtualization
• Storage virtualization is an array of servers that are
managed by a virtual storage system.
• The servers aren’t aware of exactly where their data is
stored and instead function more like worker bees in a
hive.
• It makes managing storage from multiple sources be
managed and utilized as a single repository, storage
virtualization software maintains smooth operations,
consistent performance, and a continuous suite of
advanced functions despite changes, break down, and
differences in the underlying equipment.
 5. Server Virtualization
• This is a kind of virtualization in which the masking of server
resources takes place.
• Here, the central server (physical server) is divided into
multiple different virtual servers by changing the identity
number, and processors.
• So, each system can operate its operating systems in an
isolated manner.
• Where each sub-server knows the identity of the central
server.
• It causes an increase in performance and reduces the
operating cost by the deployment of main server resources
into a sub-server resource.
• It’s beneficial in virtual migration, reducing energy
It’s beneficial in virtual migration, reducing energy consumption, reducing infrastru-
-ctural costs, etc.
 6. Data Virtualization
• This is the kind of virtualization in which the data is
collected from various sources and managed at a
single place without knowing more about the
technical information like how data is collected,
stored & formatted then arranged that data
logically so that its virtual view can be accessed by
its interested people and stakeholders, and users
through the various cloud services remotely.
• Many big giant companies are providing their
services like Oracle, IBM, At scale, Cdata, etc.
 Uses of Virtualization
• Data-integration
• Business-integration
• Service-oriented architecture data-services
• Searching organizational data
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