Virtualization

Virtualization is a new buzz word in the technology industry. It helps in the full utilization of the current hardware resources, with the help of virtual software; single machine can host number of virtual machine. Virtual machines have their own OS, Software environment etc and don’t interfere with other Virtual Machine on the Host server. Virtualization is advantageous especially in software testing and development environment. A backup copy of production server environment can be maintained on Virtual Machines to make system up and running fast in case of disaster recovery. In virtualization if virtual machine stops working it can be restarted or fixed without affecting other Virtual Machine on the Server. However if server hosting Virtual Machine crashes its fix is more involved. However Virtual machines can’t be relied upon for mission critical and production data’s.