Overview

This tutorial will outline some of the advantages of virtualization technology. Virtualization is the technology that provides the abstraction of physical network, server, and storage resources to scale the computing power and increase hardware utilization.

Advantages of Virtualization

There are several advantages of Virtualization technology for IT organizations. Some of them are as follows:

• Low costs
• Availability
• Security
• Dynamic Workloads
• Fault-tolerance
• Low redundancy
• Load balancing

Low costs

Moving to virtualization would help the organization with lower hardware and data center costs. Virtualized hardware resource utilization is more than compared to non-virtualized hardware resources.

Fault-tolerance

Failure in one virtual machine doesn’t affect the other running virtual machines.