Virtualization

39 flashcards · Other · by Ian Christensen

1. What is virtualization?

   Allocating hardware to a separate internal system

2. What is emulation?

   Imitating hardware on a computer that does not have the hardware capabilites

3. What is a virtual machine (VM)?

   A self-contained operating system running on a host operating system

4. What does VM stand for?

   Virtual Machine

5. What is a hypervisor?

   A platform that runs multiple virtual machines

6. What is a type 1 Hypervisor?

   A hypervisor that runs directly on top of the hardware as an OS (AKA Bare Metal Hypervisor)

7. What is a type 2 Hypervisor?

   A hypervisor that runs as an application in an OS

8. What are some examples of a type 1 hypervisor?

   VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or KVM

9. What is an example of a type 2 hypervisor?

   Oracle VirtualBox

10. What does VMDK stand for?

    Virtual Machine Disk

11. What does VDI stand for when using VirtualBox?

    VirtualBox Disk Image

12. What does VHD stand for?

    Virtual Hard Disk

13. What does the VM network setting Bridged Adapter mean?

    Using a "virtual network card" that piggybacks off of the physical network card

14. What does the VM network setting NAT mean?

15. What does the VM network setting Internal Network mean?

16. What does the VM network setting Host-only Adapter mean?

17. What does the VM network setting Generic Driver mean?

18. What does the VM network setting NAT Network mean?

19. What does the VM network setting Cloud Network mean?

20. What does the VM network setting Not Attached mean?

21. What is the Cloud?

22. What is Rapid Elasticity?

23. What does On-demand Scaling mean?

24. What is Resource Pooling?

25. What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

26. What does IaaS stand for?

    Infrastructure as a Service

27. What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

28. What does PaaS stand for?

    Platform as a Service

29. What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

30. What does SaaS stand for?

    Software as a Service

31. What is a Private Cloud?

32. What is a Public Cloud?

33. What are some examples of Public Clouds?

    Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure

34. What is a Hybrid Cloud?

    Some of the cloud is segregated as private and some is public

35. What is a Community Cloud?

36. What is Cloud Storage and Synchronization?

37. What are some examples of Cloud Storage and Synchronization?

    Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive

38. What is a streaming application?

39. What are some examples of streaming applications?

    Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, MS Word Online, MS Excel Online, and MS PowerPoint Online