Do you know how to achieve better hardware-assisted virtualization?
We already know that having a virtual infrastructure represents a 100% takeoff towards business efficiency and productivity. It is very convenient to outsource the problems related to administration, network functions , available processing and storage capacity. You probably already know this, but… there are still other aspects of virtualization you should take advantage of even more.
To make this possible, there are several techniques ranging from hardware virtualization (CPU, memory and devices), server software virtualization, user sessions, application virtualization, and even through the separation of processes using a single kernel.
Hardware virtualization evolution
Hardware-assisted virtualization is certainly not a recent technique, but advances in recent years, achieved mainly by the evolution of several free software tools and also by Intel and AMD processors, make it necessary to revert to this topic. After all, the world of virtualization is constantly changing and we cannot lag behind.
Hardware-assisted virtualization basically consists of emulating hardware components through virtual machines. With this, the operating system does not run on the real hardware, but on the virtual one.
Having software-assisted virtualization today translates into the possibility of:
- Managing a large number of workloads.
- Freely migrating between infrastructures and scaling according to the demands.
- Reducing maintenance overload of paravirtualization, as the necessary changes in the guest operating system are simplified.
- Increasing operational performance because this technique allows to make better use of the server, the dynamic allocation of resources, security and automation.
In case you do not know how to make this a reality, trust the experts, especially those whose solutions are consolidated in the market. The recommendations we make include the following:
- Oracle: VirtualBox, your virtualization solution for x86 hardware and AMD64/Intel64, today one of the most complete and fastest. GPLv2 is part of a dual licensing scheme.
- VmWare: The vSphere Hypervisor allows you to virtualize the servers to consolidate your applications and use less hardware. It is an excellent solution to achieve a more integrated management. The vSphere Hypervisor manages to easily provision your virtual machines in a short period of time. With vSphere Hypervisor it will be very easy to improve performance, availability and efficiency of infrastructure and applications.
- Red Hat: KVM/QEMU is the name of the virtualization solution that is part of RedHat Emerging Technologies (ET), very complete for Linux on x86 hardware with virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It is possible to operate several virtual machines with it, without modifying the Linux or Windows images that are running.
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