Consider a vast, mighty physical server in a data center. It is an engineering wonder, though it is idle 90 percent of the time, performing one operation and wasting power. But now, consider what would happen with the same server were you to make a magic that broke it into a dozen independent and secure and fully-functional servers, each with its own operating systems and applications? It is not magic; it is the main idea of virtualization.
The big game changer is the virtualization technology that enables the existence of modern cloud computing. It is the process of developing a software-based, or virtual, copy of a physical computing resource. This may be a server, a storage device, a network or even an operating system. Virtualization enables previously unimaginable efficiency, agility, and scalability by decoupling the software and underlying physical infrastructure.
This deep dive will examine the complexity of cloud computing, specifically focusing on its virtualization architecture. We are going to deassemble it, find the key elements of it, and discuss the comparison of the most prominent types of virtualization architectures and how it perform alongside some current solutions such as containerization, to drive the digital world. As an IT expert, a developer or even a technology enthusiast, it is essential to comprehend this base technology in order to grasp the cloud.