Decoding Virtualization

Imagine a company, ABC, which has two tech teams working on the development. The authorities have given them 1TB of data storage for each team.

Say, team A and team B use only 30% and 40% of the entire storage. Implying that the rest of the storage is unutilized. This makes the working cost inefficient.

Virtualization makes partitions in the data storage to make data usage more efficient.

Hypervisors

We use Hypervisors, example VM Ware, and Xen., which make logical partitions in a server. Each partition is called a virtual machine.

Suppose the server is made into 5 Virtual Machines: VM1, VM2, VM3, VM4, VM5.

Now, we can assign teams with different Virtual machines and increase efficiency.

Cloud Platforms

Organizations work with vast amounts of data and hence need massive data storage for storing them.

Cloud platforms serve this. The principle around the business is virtualization. they make the virtual machines accessed from the data centers.

The virtual machines will be provided to the end consumer according to the specifications given in the request by the user with enough validation, authorization, and authentication.