The Great Virtualisation Secret

Summary

There are major benefits that can be gained from paravirtualisation over a fully virtualised operating system. Paravirtualisation can enable smoother operation of virtual servers through dynamic resource allocation and enable further applications such as some intensive I/O databases to run in a virtualised.

If paravirtualisation technology is of interest to you then you should look at Microsoft Hyper-V (www.microsoft.com) for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 paravirtualisation and Red Hat (www.redhat.com) RHEL for Linux paravirtualisation. 

RHEL also has the added benefit of supporting mixed Windows and Linux environments and can be run on legacy hardware (ie you don’t need to go and buy new hardware to run RHEL).

Ben Chai has been a writer and editor for several industry IT magazines and is currently the Content Director for Net Communities who own ITProportal.com. In addition he is an executive director for several companies in the IT industry such as Incomingthought.com.