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Table of contents

1 How do programs operate?

2 What is Virtualization?

3 What is it good for?

4 What is it not good for?

5 Conclusion

6 References

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A 50,000 foot view

What are the layers in this cake?

User — the person (orthing) that want’ssomething done

Application — the programthat does the work

Hardware — the silicone,copper, other tangibles thatgenerate heat

Operating system —arbitrates between multipleprograms and limitedresources

Figure : Notional view of computerlayers [3].

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Focusing on the OS

What does it do?

Provides a user interface(maybe a Command LineInterface)

Schedules access to thehardware

Schedules the functions ofthe CPU

Figure : A few OS details [2].

An OS is a program (albeit, a large program). What if we couldwrite a program that would run an OS as an application??

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Tricking the upper layer.

Higher layers rely on lowerlayers for services

Layers create interfaces

Interfaces allow for hidingdetails

What is real? And, what isvirtual? [1]

As long as the lower layer supplies all the services, the upper layerwon’t know where the services originated.

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One hardware suite can run many OS in virtualmachines.

Ultimately the hardwaredetermines how many virtualmachines can be run

Faster CPU(s), more RAM,more network connections,more disks, . . . , more isbetter

Fewer actual machinesusually means lower power,lower cooling, cheaperupgrade path

With clever software, almost anything can be virtualized. Hadoopis clever software.

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Anything that has to be fast.

Underlying hardware suite isshared across all “machines”

Mission critical applications

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In summary.

To use virtual machines, or

To not use virtual machines.

It depends on what is important.

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What have we covered?

There are lots of free virtualmachine programs for you totryThey are good for trying,testing, experimentingThey are good for maximumuse of available hardwareThey are not good forreal-time applicationsHDFS is a virtual file system

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References I

[1] Paul Hodge, Virtualization 101: Understanding how to do morewith less, https://www.isa.org/standards-and-publications/isa-publications/intech-magazine/2011/august/system-integration-virtualization-101-understanding-how-to-do-more-with-less/,2011.

[2] Willy-Peter Schaub,UNISA Chatter Operating System Concepts: Part 2 System Structureshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter schaub/archive/2010/01/07/unisa-chatter-operating-system-concepts-part-2-system-structures.aspx,2010.

[3] Wikipedia, Software — Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software, 2015.