Virtualization

Virtualization is increasingly used in the professional IT world to :

• consolidate servers to better use the resources of each server
• ease of management
• ability to migrate virtual machines from one server to another
• ability to test or restore machines or servers in a few clicks
• and more

In short, virtualization is a very large concept and includes in particular :

• machine virtualization on a PC with VMware Workstation Pro, for example
• server and machine virtualization with hypervisors like VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, ...
• virtualization of desktops - VDI : with Microsoft RDS/Hyper-V, Citrix XenDesktop, ...
• application virtualization : with Citrix XenApp, Microsoft RemoteApp, ...