Virtualization terms starting with H

19 terms

  1. HA (High Availability) A combination of technology, processes, and support partnerships that provide greater application or system availability.
  2. HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) A layer between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer designed to hide differences in the underlying hardware…
  3. hardware virtual machine See Full virtualization
  4. hardware virtualization This technology was the starting point of the virtualization movement. Originally, the x86-architecture did not support virtualization.
  5. Hardware Virtualization Assist See Virtualization Assist.
  6. hardware-independence by virtualizing the underlying hardware that an operating system interacts with, and with the proper virtual machine monitor and hypervisor, the operating…
  7. Hardware-level virtualization See full virtualization.
  8. headless Describes a program or application that runs in the background without any interface connected to it.
  9. high-level language virtual machine virtualization implemented as an application program on top of an operating system.
  10. High-level language virtual machines In high-level language virtual machines, the virtualization layer sits as an application program on top of an operating system.
  11. host In a network, the central computer which controls the remote computers and holds the central databases.
  12. Host OS (Operating System) the operating system first installed on a computer which can run virtualization software to host one or more virtual machines.
  13. Host System (or Host) A computer system on which VMware Workstation software is running.
  14. Host-Only Networking A type of network connection between a virtual machine and the host. Under host-only networking, a virtual machine is connected to the host on a private…
  15. hosted environment installing virtualization software on top of an existing standard operating system to provide services for one or more virtual machines.
  16. Hosted Virtualization A virtualization approach where partitioning and virtualization services run on top of a standard operating system (the host).
  17. Hyper-Threading A processor architecture feature that allows a single processor to execute multiple independent threads simultaneously.
  18. hyperthreading See simultaneous multithreading.
  19. hypervisor A hypervisor, sometimes referred to as a virtualization manager, is a program that allows multiple operating systems which can include different operating…