Chapter 18
Which of these tools is considered a Web application?
DropBox
Which VMware product is used on Mac systems?
Fusion
What is another term for a virtual machine?
Guest
What are the most limiting factors in a host s ability to run virtual machines?
Hard disk space and RAM
What does the abbreviation IaaS stand for?
Infrastructure as a service
Which operating system, when added as a virtual machine, requires a separate, licensed copy?
Microsoft Windows
What is a virtualization product that works on Mac operating systems?
Parallels Desktop
What important benefit of virtualization provides significant cost savings in utility usage?
Power savings
What is one important reason to implement virtualization?
System management
What company makes ESXi?
VMware
Which company was one of the earliest to make hypervisors, and arguably the one that put PC virtualization on the map?
VMware
Which of these virtualization products is a commercial product (i.e. , not free)?
VMware Fusion
Which hypervisor runs in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux hosts?
VirtualBox
Hyper-V is a part of which distribution?
Windows 8 Pro
What is one of the advantages of Software as a Service?
You do not have to install the software.
Virtual environments are stored as _______________.
a set of files
Software or hardware that converts the commands to and from the host machine into an entirely different platform is known as a(n) ________________.
emulator
Intel s VT-x and AMD s AMD-V are examples of _______________.
hardware virtualization support
A physical system that runs specialized virtualization software is called a(n) ________________.
host
VMWare s ESXi is an example of a(n) _____________.
. bare-metal hypervisor
Many virtual machine managers replace the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key sequence with _______________.
CTRL-ALT-INSERT
What term refers a large number of networked, virtualized servers combined with a powerful front end?
Cloud computing
The term bare-metal virtualization software refers to _______________.
hypervisors
Consolidating a system s physical and time resources is known as ________________.
resource pooling
Virtualization occurs when a ________________ running specialized software creates environments within unique single files that _______________ other computers.
single computer; replicates