Innovation: System Virtualization

System Virtualization:

  Virtualization refers to the use of software to allow system hardware to run multiple instances of different operating systems concurrently, allowing you to run different applications requiring different operating systems on one computer system. The operating systems do not interfere with each other or the various applications. Not to be confused with operating system-level virtualization, which is a type of server virtualization.

Operating system-level virtualization is commonly used in virtual hosting environments, where it is useful for securely allocating finite hardware resources amongst a large number of mutually-distrusting users. It is also used, to a lesser extent, for consolidating server hardware by moving services on separate hosts into containers on the one server.

In simple words,Virtualization of a system is One single system made to virtualize multiple systems and users with  multiple operating systems. ex: Having an FTP server,SMTP server,DHCP simulated on different systems as one system.

Softwares: VMware,Microsoft Virtual PC.

Innovation and System Virtualization: In virtualization if there is an overload or monitoring to be done or if main system goes wrong,the entire Virtualized environment will be collapsed. But to become a self-healing system a system has to know that there are issues which can have an impact on its availability. This can only be done by monitoring the health of the system.

Developing self monitoring/healing load balancing and regular backups,and interexchangeability of data between systems.