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What is Virtualization?

Virtualization is a concept and practice that has been in use in enterprise computing for nearly 50 years. Only recently have the concepts been adapted from enterprise mainframe supercomputers to the more common hardware in use in the Internet industry today. As a result, virtualization is now a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute.

Today’s powerful server hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualization breaks that bond, making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same server at the same time, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware while minimizing overhead and related costs.

Virtualization is a technology that can benefit anyone who uses a server, from IT professionals and computing enthusiasts to commercial businesses and government organizations.

How Does Virtualization Work?

In essence, virtualization transforms server hardware into software. Using software to transform, or “virtualize” the hardware resources of a server—including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller—to create fully functional virtual machines that can run their own operating systems and applications.

Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering with each other so several operating systems and applications can run at the same time on a single server. This reduces the amount of hardware, power and storage space required to run multiple servers by a substantial percentage, which in turn reduces costs.

The SmartRocks.Net Approach

The SmartRocks.Net approach to virtualization inserts a thin layer of commercial and proprietary software directly on our state-of-the-art server hardware. This software layer creates virtual machines and contains a virtual machine monitor, or “hypervisor” that allocates hardware resources dynamically and transparently so that multiple operating systems can run concurrently on a single physical server without even knowing it. This hypervisor also monitors the performance of the virtual machines and reports to technicians if there are errors.

But virtualizing single physical servers is just the beginning. SmartRocks.Net offers a robust virtualization platform scaled across multiple interconnected physical servers and storage devices to form an entire virtual infrastructure. This allows for a high level of availability and performance at a substantially reduced cost.

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