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Topics: - Hypervisor - Virtualization Host - Virtual Machine - Virtualized Infrastructure Service Elements
Virtualization is used on premises as well as in public cloud environments. In fact, cloud computing would not be possible without virtualization, which allows for the rapid provisioning of virtual machines and the sharing of pooled hardware compute resources. Hypervisors are the foundation of operating system virtualization. Virtual machine guests have memory, processor, and network configurations that can efficiently share hypervisor resources.
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