Virtualization terms starting with N

10 terms

  1. NAS (Network Attached Storage) NAS provides storage resources to servers and workstations over a shared or dedicated network.
  2. NAT (Network Address Translation) A type of network connection that allows you to connect your virtual machines to an external network when you have only one IP network address, and that…
  3. Native Execution Execution of an application directly on a physical server, as contrasted with running the application in a virtual machine.
  4. Native System A computer running a single operating system, and in which the applications run directly in that operating system.
  5. NetBSD/Xen A port of NetBSD to the Xen architecture.
  6. network virtualization Network virtualization is a method of combining the available resources in a network by splitting up the available bandwidth into channels, each of which…
  7. node Any device connected to network. PCs, servers, and printers are all nodes on the network.
  8. Nonpersistent Disk All disk writes issued by software running inside a virtual machine with a nonpersistent virtual disk appear to be written to disk, but are in fact…
  9. Normal (Windowed) Mode A mode of operation in which a virtual machine's display resides within the VMware Workstation console screen. See also Full Screen Mode.
  10. NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) describes a system architecture in which the machine is organized into a series of nodes containing processors and memory.