Virtualization terms starting with B

8 terms

1. bare metal environment installing a virtualization hypervisor as the first layer of software on a system, before any operating system. Compare to hosted environment.
2. bare-metal The term bare-metal refers to the underlying physical architecture of a computer.
3. binding The ability of molecules to bind each other non-covalently because of the exact shape and chemical nature of parts of their surfaces.
4. blade Usually a part of an excavator which digs and pushes dirt but does not carry it.
5. blade server a rack-mounted chassis which accepts multiple modularized server blades and provides shared network and power resources, resulting in high server density…
6. BT (Binary Translation) Technique used by virtualization softwares to translate instruction set guest OSes send to virtual hardware in instruction set understandable by physical…
7. business continuity An organization's ability to continue to operate in the event of a disaster or disruption See also disaster recovery plan.
8. BVT (Borrowed Virtual Time) The BVT scheduler is used to give proportional fair shares of the CPU to domains.