Summary
Virtualization has proven to bring significant benefits to a user, especially when combining virtual machines with rugged Intel based processor cards. This short publication aims to give a comprehensive overview of the advantages of using virtual machines and, further explain why Concurrent Technologies now offers support for popular variants, including VMware vSphere.
Introduction
Before we can establish what benefits virtualization brings, we must first define what it is and how it is used. In layman’s terms “The basic idea behind virtualization is to use software to simulate the existence of hardware. This powerful idea enables you to run more than one independent computer instance on a single physical computer system”. i Each of these simulated computers are known as virtual machines (VM), and for all intents and purposes, each VM appears as a self-contained, complete system with its own memory, processor, storage driver and network ports.