From the course: Networking Foundations: Networking Basics
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Virtualization
From the course: Networking Foundations: Networking Basics
Virtualization
- Back in the nineties, I used to be a network manager at a university where we had a server farm. And that server farm was a room with racks and racks of huge servers, one server for each department or college within the university. It was really expensive to buy all of those servers and to provide them with power and to keep them updated. Fortunately, an alternative we have today is to have a single physical server and install multiple virtual servers on that physical server. Here's an example, let's say that our business needs a Microsoft Windows Server, a Linux Server, and an Oracle Solaris Server. We could have a physical server for each of those, or we could have a single physical server on which we install three virtual servers as virtual machines. The way this works is we have a single physical server that's hosting our three virtual servers and that physical server is running a piece of software called a…
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