POCS-CH1.2 (Vocab)

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An individual virtual machine; also called an application cell.

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container

Front

An individual virtual machine; also called a container.

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application cell

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Looks and functions like a Computer Operating System (COS), but is separate from the host OS.

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virtual machine

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Bare metal hypervisor; software that acts as an OS and enables virtualization of other OSs on the same computer.

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Type 1 hypervisor

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A virtual machine interface loaded on a host OS.

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hypervisor 2

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Freeze frame of the system image and its files/configuration.

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snapshot

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In virtualization, the OS that hosts virtual OSs.

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host operating system

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Virtualization software by Microsoft included with Windows Server 2009.

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Hyper-V

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Software that runs on a physical computer and manages one or more virtual machine OS.

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hypervisor

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In virtual computing, the ability to quickly deploy resources when needed.

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provisioning