Server Virtualization - "rescued the sinking boat of IT"..!

by Rajesh Gandla , Btech IV CSE

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Field of Virtual Hardware...

Well, this one is interesting challenge to the system hardware contributors...!
i,e.. giving us the ready made Virtual Hardware ...
this might be a bugging issue "why to look for virtual hardware and what it is.."
and the answer is quite uncomplicated...
instead of virutalizing the system using a software and utilizing the layer called "Hypervisor".. virtual hardware provides a mechanism of inbuilt virtualization.. means the hardware components have in-built capacity of supporting virtualization.. it doesn't mean that we do not have to use virtualization software to realize the mechanism. instead hardware has got inbuilt hypervisor.. but one should keep in mind that WE DO HAVE TO USE A SOFTWARE TO INITIALIZE THE VIRTUALIZATION MECHANISM.
By this virtual hardware system we can have improvement over the resource utilization.

In 1990's INTEL and AMD companies offered virtual hardware surprisingly at the same period of time.. but they both have different architectures and algorithms of achieving virtualization..


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