July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
20h 27m
English
In this chapter, you will learn about
• Benefits of virtualization in a cloud environment
• Virtual resource migrations
• Migration considerations
• Software defined
Virtualization is the key building block to cloud computing, and it is used by cloud providers to offer services to cloud consumers. Virtualization is the component that makes it possible for cloud services to provide a scalable, elastic, and on-demand environment. For example, cloud services may have thousands of hypervisors. When a cloud consumer requests a new server, the cloud provider provisions a new VM from a hypervisor. No new physical hardware needs to be put in place to service the request.
Virtualization allows an organization ...
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