Virtualization terms starting with S

21 terms

1. SAN (Storage Area Network) A high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disc or discs for storing data.
2. saved state A manner of storing a virtual machine so that it can be quickly resumed, similar to a hibernated laptop.
3. Scalability The capacity of a system to expand without requiring major reconfiguration or re-entry of data.
4. self-healing In case of failure, there will be a hot backup instance of the application ready to take over without disruption (known as failover).
5. server blade a computer system contained on a single, hot-pluggable board, for use in a blade server.
6. server consolidation Server consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer server resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations…
7. server containment an IT strategy to minimize server sprawl by provisioning new services on virtual machines hosted on a virtual infrastructure leading to better…
8. server rationalization executing server consolidation with a concentration on reducing management complexity, often by consolidating to a smaller number of more homogeneous…
9. server sprawl Server sprawl is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized servers take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their…
10. server virtualization Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating…
11. Service Console The service console boots the systems and runs support, management, and administration applications.
12. shadow pagetables A technique for hiding the layout of machine memory from a virtual machine's operating system.
13. simultaneous multithreading similar to time-slice multithreading (superthreading), except that the multiple threads introduced into the pipelines on a given clock cycle can be from…
14. SLA (Service Level Agreement) is the policy that a Cloud providing company will make to its clients to guarantee how their services will work.
15. SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) A computer architecture that utilizes multiple CPUs to complete individual processes simultaneously.
16. SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessor) A multiprocessor architecture in which two or more processors are connected to a single pool of shared memory. See also Uniprocessor (UP).
17. snapshot Amazon Elastic Block Store creates snapshots or backups of your volumes and stores them in Amazon S3.
18. SRAT (System Resource Allocation Table) table that keeps track of memory allocated to a virtual machine.
19. storage virtualization Physical storage resources are aggregated into storage pools,from which the logical storage is created.
20. superthreading See time-slice multithreading.
21. SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) Another name for AMD's version of virtualization assist, included in some 64-bit AMD processors. See AMD Virtualization.