Managing Virtual Machines; About Virtual Machines - Symantec ALTIRIS SERVER MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Managing Virtual Machines

This chapter includes the following topics:

About virtual machines

The virtualization process helps you optimally use the resources and applications
of your organization.
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Running a single operating system and a single application on a physical computer
can be a too low utilization of the resource. Virtualization lets you create and run
multiple virtual machines on a single physical computer.
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Each virtual machine can run different operating system and software applications.
Each virtual machine also has its own software-based processor, memory, hard
disk, and network interface card. The virtual machines, though on the same
physical computer, stay isolated from each other. A virtual machine cannot be
differentiated from a physical computer.
Virtual machine is a software package that includes information about hardware
resources, applications, and operating system. You can easily move or copy the
virtual machine from one location to another.
About virtual machines
Creating a virtual machine
Deleting a virtual machine
"About Virtual Machine Management"
"Creating a virtual machine"
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