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How is network virtualization useful?
I am trying to understand various virtualization techniques, and I am struggling to wrap my head around the concept of Network Virtualization. In case of the server virtualization, the objective is ...
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How does storage virtualization help?
I am trying to understand various types of virtualization techniques. The concept of Hardware virtualization/Virtual machine was simple enough. However, I am struggling to understand the concept of ...
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cloud storage vs storage virtualization?
I am trying to understand the concept of storage virtualization. Based on what I have read, storage virtualization appears to be synonymous with cloud storage. Based on my understanding, Amazon S3 is ...
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bare-metal server vs cloud server vs on-prem server?
I am trying to understand the difference between bare-metal servers and cloud servers. I am referring to the following document,blog. I understand that Amazon EC2(which is all the rage) is an example ...
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Confused about how to test Python scripts that install and configure a development setup on OSX (VMware? Docker-OSX?)
In my company we hire engineers for various "disciplines"—iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Data, etc. Engineers follow an onboarding workbook to install what they need for their discipline. iOS ...
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Are there any advantages to using dockerfile dependencies over virtual environment for Python apps?
I am currently working solo on a very small simple python microservice. I started building this app, mostly by habit, in a virtual environment. As I started to get closer to the point where deployment ...
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How to virtualize a DLL without creating an executable entry point?
In a project, I need to come up with a way to virtualize a third-party DLL with a known exported function prototype. I need to create something like this: My app <---> wrapper DLL <---> ...
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What is the difference between the terms 'Virtual' and 'Logical'?
What do people mean when they say 'Logical' in terms like Logical separation, Logical partition, Logical grouping etc. in software ? I know what 'Virtual' means, it means something that does not ...
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Is there any reason I shouldn't use a LInux host for a Linux guest VM?
I'm a developer and my typical environment is to use is a Linux guest OS running inside VirtualBox on a Windows host. Most software companies don't allow developers to install Linux bare metal on ...
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Should I deploy redundant SQL database servers in a cloud environment?
As a System Architect I need to deploy a resillient database server in an isolated private cloud. The cloud is OpenStack with Ceph backend and the Database is SQL. Is a single database server VM with ...
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To show the difference between system VMs and JVMs
I am trying to draw diagrams that show the difference between system virtual machines and Java virtual machines. The first two images looks correct to me. But I don't know how to draw the third. ...
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Docker and GPU-based computations. Feasible? [closed]
Recently I ran against this question and this Nvidia-docker project, which is an Nvidia Docker implementation and it made me wondering where, why and how this scheme makes sense? I found out some ...
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What's the difference between block-level virtualization and file-level virtualization?
In cloud computing these two terms really confuses me, block-level virtualization and file-level virtualization . As of my knowledge, in file-level virtualization compute systems are not allocated ...
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One vagrant file (/var/www/VagrantFile) for multiple apps
I manage multiple apps in my dev: /var/www/ qa jt auth We have a QA vagrant which runs QA app in its own vagrant. My understanding was that each app would run its own VM but this would ...
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Is ART an installation process? Or an OS? Or a virtual Machine?
When attempting to understand Android Runtime, I came across the wikipedia page. The graphic shown there adds to my confusion. If .dex is getting converted entirely to ELF, why is ART needed anymore? ...
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