Virtualisation

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ABSTRACT:
This paper discusses about virtualisation as it is rapid growing technology under
which many researches on progress. Actually virtualisation is software which is used
to implement or create new operating system within specified host. Due to this
operation it consumes power and space problems. Here in this paper we are going to
see different virtualisation and how it works, reduction of cost and electricity
consumption.

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INDEX
1. Introduction........................................................
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2. Virtualisation......................................................
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3. Different types of
Virtualisation........................................6

4. Advantages and
Disadvantages........................................10

5. Future
implementation...................................................
..11

6. Conclusion..........................................................
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7. References...........................................................
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1. INTRODUCTION:
Technology spotlight (2008), The system virtualisation was introduced in 1964’s by
IBM Cambridge scientific center and created cp 40, the first version was cp/cms. In
January 1967 it was started, at that time they were implemented full virtualisation by
cp 40.
After that IBM has changed their direction to create s/370 models in 1972s and also
they created many virtual storage os . And IBM were reported in 1980’s that they had
vm licenses. At February 8, 1999 the first virtualisation x 86 products were introduced
by VMware. The high quality virtualisation were provide by VMware in 2005, free to
everyone to get the ability to produce virtual machines and the acceleration tools were
not given which is coming with VMware workstation. This has changed the stream in
virtualisation, that plays a new level in application streaming and application
virtualisation.

National Instruments (2009), Virtualisation is a technology that accepts two or more

virtual operating systems on a physical embedded controller. It is rapidly growing in
engineering world and it admits engineers to reduction of cost, saving power
consumption, hardware equipments and also the time saver.

Virtualization Technology (2009), Virtualisation is software package technology,

which applies a physical resource such as host servers will splits into virtual
imaginations called virtual machines (vm). Virtualisation admits users to merge
physical resource, modify preparation, organisation, and decresease in power and
temperature reduction essentials. Although virtualisation technology is well nigh
democratic in the server world, it is also living applied in the data storage such as
SAN (storage area networks) and within operating systems much as windows server
2008 on Hyper V.
Malek.c (2009),

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 Figure 1: Virtual Machine Monitor - Virtual Machine Relationship

Virtualisation is an applied science which applies single physical server to run more
virtual servers. Using virtual server software instrument that has a full os and
software’s, like a conventional server. The virtual server thinks that it runs in physical
equipments and any software works in physical equipment will runs in the virtual
system. While using virtualisation software the virtual machine thinks that it running
in physical machines hardware in the internet interfaces, resolutions, pen drive, cd
roms, hard disk, mouse, etc. And in virtual server the I/O devices run as in physical
server. The resources for virtual server are same as in physical server. And the files in
the physical server can exchange to virtual servers by interferences. But it physical
memory is reduced because for virtual machine requires some amount of memory and
space to run the system. But in a basic virtualisation server can select only eight to
twenty virtual server.

2. Virtualisation:
Davis.D(2009), It is essentially a way to operate multiple operating systems in one
piece of hardware at the same time.

Virtualisation has divided three forms; they are resource, platform and application. In
which we are explaining the structure. Like resource has hardware and computing in
which hardware has memory, virtual memory, network, storage.

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 Figure 2: Virtualisation

3. Different types of virtualisations:

Davis.D(2009), There are different types of virtualisations they are:

 Network Virtualisation,
 Storage Virtualisation,
 Application Virtualisation,
 Desktop Virtualisation and
 Server Virtualisation

Network virtualisation:
This network virtualisation can make one or more virtual network devices to reduce
physical networks. Network virtualisation is a subset which is practical usable for
VMware product. By virtual switches we can connect the virtual servers together
within VMware. Users may select whether this virtual switches are attached to a
physical network adapters or strictly select internally through the virtual machines. In
this path we can select secure network surrounding and insecure path data
communications accepts identify entirely within the virtual surroundings.

About network virtualisation Sun and HP were discussing for years. At present about
this topic cisco were talking to create data center. The main theme of the network

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virtualisation is to make traditional server and keep them in network. But cisco gives
3 parts of network virtualisation like service edge, access control and path isolation.

Figure 3: Network virtualisation in cisco

Benefits:
Cetus solutions (2009), Network virtualisation produces additional capabilities to
think cisco, open network. But open network is also called as 3com. Open network
has working card that can be placed in router, on that network has linux server but it is
the backbone of router. We can create applications like voip, packet sniffer, etc

Storage virtualisation:
Technology infrastructure solutions (2009), By using storage virtualisation we need
to make one or more storage devices that can be seen as virtual shared devices. The
main creator was datacore.
The storage area network (san) is used in storage virtualisation. In a single storage
device that is taken from a central cabinet was used as pooling of a virtualisation of
physical storage. It is slow process and time taken management for storage device.
Storage virtualisation supporters the storage administrator execute the jobs of filing
away, backup and it retrieval more well in a less time.
By using software applications users can apply virtualisation. In different levels
storage area network is a type of technology that can be directed to that level.

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Figure 4: storage virtualisation

Benefits: Search storage (2009)

 It has high performance because it has direct data transfer in the storage and
server resources.
 The storage virtualisation is easy to configure the specified host.

Desktop virtualisation:
Systancia (2009), Desktop virtualization makes sure to virtualise the os of the desktop
in totality. Several physical desktop were hosted in a safe data to get certificate and
better data accessibility. The users can use their desktop by using remote access.

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 Figure 5: Desktop virtualisation

Benefits of the desktop virtualisation:

• Here we can benefit reduction of electricity consumptions, higher server
utilization, decrease in carbon emissions and resource requirements.
• Cost of the desktop is reduces.
• Security of the data is improves.
• We can change the version of desktop virtualisation.

Application Virtualisation:
Systancia (2009), Application virtualisation arrives at potential to allow lotions as a
help, bringing down free from the technological restraints from preparation.
Total user information and applications are entertained at a safe data centre for
bettered data availableness and certificate.
Users can admission their practical applications from any place, at whatever time
applying a web browser and profit from bettered value of help.

Figure 6: Application virtualisation

Benefits of application virtualisation:

• By using this application virtualisation the applications can get directly.
• In application virtualisation the data security is improved.
• And the availability of the application virtualisation is improved.

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 • By using application virtualisation the number of components can bring
down to get desktop.

Server Virtualisation:
Search server virtualization (2009), In server virtualisation, the shared servers are
taken more applications to reduce the physical servers. In this virtualisation they are
different types of machines are there, they are operating system on virtual, para virtual
machine and virtual machine.

 Full virtualisation: The virtual operating system is unchanged and it thinks

that it is going in the same equipment as the physical operating system. And it
is supported by vmware and Microsoft.

 Para virtualisation: The virtual operating system is changed as in xen. And it

is supported by xen and vmware.

 Operating system virtual: The virtual operating system is unchanged but it is

operating on software. This is supported by vmware, xen, Microsoft.

The server virtualisation products for example:

Microsoft virtual pc, Vmware server, Esx server, xen, etc
HCI digital (2009),

Figure 7: server virtualisation

Benefits: Virtualization products and technologies (2009),

 Strengthens multiple, underused physical servers with in one host.

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  It decreases the space by leverage virtualisation for server integration and the
lightness.
 This services keep less cost, because less handling and less workforce.

Leading Applications of virtualisation:

 Network virtualisation is used in cisco.
 Storage virtualisation is used data core.
 Server virtualisation is divided into different levels, they are
• Full virtualisation is used in vmware and Microsoft.
• Para virtualisation is used in xen and vmware.
• Operating system virtual is used in xen, vmware and Microsoft.

4. Advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages of Virtualisation:

 IT costs is reduce:
Novell (2008), While using this virtualisation we can create less number of servers in
single host instead of large quantity of physical host’s servers. The operations of the
physical host is simplified by using virtualisation and also cost is reduced for cooling
and power, also decreases the size of data centres. We can also increase the server
utilisation by merging physical servers. By using virtualisation we can decreases
hardware equipments, power cost and maintenance. By this we can create better
technologies and reduce the costs in the IT resources.

 The performance is improves:

By using this virtualisation we can improve the performance of systems. But the xen
is acts as a hypervisor. In this am selecting Xen SUSE linux server platform. For
example using xen based server virtualisation we can get more information from the
selected data centre. While the para virtualised drives makes it easy to select all the
application and services, and to run them to get good performance on virtual server in
the SUSE Linux.
 Do more with less:
In this we don’t need to pay high cost to get good results. See in the xen, it is like
open source hypervisor that can be selected part in the SUSE linux platform. For IT
staff it make easy from the management tool. And also we can move the old virtual
server to new virtual server, while changing new hardware. We should use full
graphical memory and the management tool to become easy for virtual machine
configuration. By using virtualisation we can decrease equipment and installation on
the system.
 Here, we are using virtualisation in utility computing, because it saves the
money. It acts as pay you go service like it saves energy. Whenever we want
the service we are using it and after that we are not using that service. As
utility computing provides services by pay as you go subscription we can save
money.
 To create new server in virtualisation it will be easy and faster, and if we want
to change operating system it will become easy. At the same time we can
operate two or more virtual operating systems by using this virtualisation.

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Disadvantages of virtualisation: CA implementation best practries (2008),

 The performance of workloads can effect by virtualisation overhead and

workloads become less for the virtualisation.
 The cost of the equipment becomes high, because it requires high requirement
hardware.
 By using this virtualisation the physical system has some security risk.
 Virtualisation requires large amount of resources and ram, to perform the
virtual machines powerful.
 And also for managing the virtualisation machines it requires high skill to
operate.
 To setup a new server it require quite expensive.
 While using this virtualisation the system becomes slow and the output
becomes slow.

5. Future Implementation:
Davis.D(2009), Now a days so many companies like dell, Microsoft, sun micro
systems, etc were using this virtualisation technologies, and they were satisfied with
this service because they were gaining lots of improvements. And the performance of
the systems is also increased.
As cloud computing is an emerging technology now a day’s virtualisation
plays a key role in cloud computing. The next big things are virtual application,
virtual data center.

6. Conclusion:
We can conclude that using virtualisation we can solve the problems of space, power,
time consumption and we can reduce the cost of equipments. And we can reduce the
maintenance because it requires less manpower to handle the operating system. I
agree that virtualisation solves the future problems in computing and networks. And
the security of the systems is easy to maintain but the system becomes slow. For
different types of requirements we can choose different virtualisations like desktop
virtualisation, server virtualisation, network virtualisation etc. But it requires more
ram memory, processing power and the graphics memory.

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