Types of Virtualization

last updated on 2009-03-27

New The blog Consolidation Technologies - One Size Doesn't Fit All compares and contrasts various virtualization techniques, such as multiple-OS approaches (for example, physical domains and bare metal hypervisors) and single-OS approaches (for example, OS virtualization and resource management).

Similarly, Choose Your Virtual Weapon (from Sun Inner Circle newsletter) describes different types of virtualization and explains why one size does not fit all.

New To see a summary of the products and services Sun offers for various types of virtualization--from desktop to server to storage--see the Sun Virtualization Solutions web page, which also provides links to additional resources.

Also see the following sections of this web site for more information:

• Server virtualization
• OS virtualization
• Storage virtualization
• Desktop virtualization
• Network virtualization