Mastering KVM Virtualization

Types of virtualization

Simply put, virtualization is the process of virtualizing something such as hardware, network, storage, application, access, and so on. Thus, virtualization can happen to any of the components.

Note

Refer to the Advantages of virtualization section for more details on different possibilities in virtualization.

For example:

• SDN or Software-Defined Networking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking. These techniques are examples of network virtualization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_virtualization.
• Software Defined Storage (SDS), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_storage. This is part of storage virtualization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_virtualization.
• The application streaming, ...