English for system administrators. Светлана Алексеевна Губарева

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      Vocabulary:

      Unit 7. Hardware virtualization

      1. Look at the news and answer the questions:

      – What is hardware virtualization?

      – How can it help companies?

      – What are the possible risks of cloud hardware virtualization?

      – Do you think that hardware virtualization is an ideal computing environment of the future? Why?

      2. Read the text and tick the topics which were mentioned:

      Hardware virtualization is a technology that allows the hardware elements to be divided into multiple virtual machines. Sometimes hardware virtualization is executed on a particular hardware platform by host software. It requires a hypervisor which is used in order to maintain the virtual environment by creating virtual versions of hardware. Most common examples of desktop virtualization products are the following: Vmware, VirtualBox, and Parallels.