Virtualization Essentials

Glossary

ballooning

A process that allows the hypervisor to reclaim physical memory pages by forcing the virtual machine operating system to flush memory pages to disk.

bandwidth

A measure of network performance defined by the amount of data that can travel through the network over a period of time. Typically given in bits per seconds.

bare-metal

A computer server without any operating system software installed.

BCDR

Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery. An availability topic area that covers how businesses can protect their business-critical processing from disasters, natural and man-made, that would otherwise destroy or significantly interrupt service from the datacenter.

bridged network

A connection type that allows a virtual machine ...