Virtualization meets rival microprocessors to disrupt cloud computing markets

Nowadays, with the development of cloud computing and large data industry, virtualization technology is more and more accepted by people. Virtualization has become the trend of future development. Now, however, the emergence of micro-servers is likely to disrupt the development trend of virtualization, this is why?

What is virtualization technology?

In the early days of IT development, there was no virtualization technology, at that time the performance of the computer is relatively weak, but with the development of computer performance, a computer performance has been greatly improved to meet the operation of multiple applications. And many times these computers are often in a state of no-load, resulting in a lot of waste.

As a result, virtualization technology, through virtualization technology, can be a computer virtual multiple logical computers, each logical computer can run a different operating system, and the application can operate in a separate space between each other, this design greatly improve the efficiency of the computer.

However, in recent days, the emergence of micro-servers and virtual machine technology trend, these micro-servers for some special applications, cheaper processor is the future trend, and based on small server chassis to build a shared power and network systems. The result of this change is that a server system does not run multiple workloads and may not even require virtualization technology.

Advantages of micro-server

The emergence of micro-server is mainly in the current Internet companies, such as Google, Facebook and China's Baidu, such as large internet companies, they use the micro-server, such as cheap nodes, can meet their business needs, this can save money, but also

This approach to micro-servers is ideal for scaling out applications such as Google, Facebook, and large data applications. They need more inexpensive nodes to meet demand.

There is no accurate answer as to which of the micro server and virtual machine is more advantageous, but the micro-server can bring customers real benefits, although its advantages in other areas has not yet been reflected. Let's take a look at the specific application value of the micro-server.

In today's micro-servers, each remote desktop has its own micro-server to correspond, and in a virtualized system, multiple users share a high power server, so the micro-server processing faster.

A meaningful comparison of micro-servers and virtualization should take into account power and space, as well as the cost of the system.

Micro-server can greatly reduce the user room space, while providing unified management and simple not familiar. But again, a rack server can create a need to reduce space through virtualization technology. At the same time, they had to install a storage subsystem to complete the storage requirements of the tower-mounted server's built-in hard disk.

But now the micro-server is still a new product, the company's laboratories are trying to improve its application technology, but the HP Moon server led by the micro-server is enough to other virtualization technology concerns.