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Week-2 Watch-and-Learn Report
Azure Virtual Machines – What’s New?
Due to difficulty of transferring tasks from one platform to another platform, most organizations nowadays are converting their preference to a virtual server or virtual machine. This virtual server captures the core hardware and networking resources. A physical server that runs a single occurrence of operating system and application is primarily difficult to setup. However, with Azure virtual machine virtualization is possible as hardware and infrastructure space costs is reduced while multiple systems can run from similar console at specific time. Azure cloud framework for the utilization of physical server resources at remote virtual machine servers. This virtual service has a framework that is implemented in two phases first by integrating physical servers into virtual ones by creating virtual machines, and then by integrating virtual servers into cloud service providers in a cost-effective manner. Accordingly, Azure proves that it can run core applications and efficiently has a hybrid cloud infrastructure that organizations can trust particularly in areas of choice and flexibility, availability and resiliency, security and compliance, cost effectiveness, scale and performance, and management and governance. Organizations can create a virtual network in the Azure datacenter using the local host physical server to construct several virtual machines. Perumal, et al., (2022) explained that Azure VM has two virtual machine instances, VM1 and VM2, are created using Microsoft Hyper-V with the server Windows 2016 R. The desktop application is deployed, and the virtual machine performance is monitored using the PowerShell script, which estimate the physical server functionality of the worksheet for the deployed application. As much as it provides various ready-made virtual machines, organizations need to manage security aspects when deploying application workloads into virtual machines controlled by the host operating system. Hence, its features are a great help in migrating tasks, costs of hardware and networking resources, and the ease of setting up.
Windows Server 2016 Virtualization
Windows server 2016 is in a technical preview stage, but main capabilities of Hyper-V for Windows server 2016 are already available in Hyper-V for Windows 10 operating system. These features include many improvements of Virtual machines and Hyper-V manager, as well as the possibility of using a Hyper-V cluster with mixed Hyper-V version, nested virtualization, and many other features (Jonikas, 2018). The key benefits of this virtualized infrastructure can be divided as follows: server consolidation (reducing the number of physical servers, reducing the power and cooling expenses for data center, reducing the complexity of entire IT infrastructure), business continuity and disaster recovery, development and test systems, dynamic data center.
In addition, the introduction of virtualization server system provides reliable and cost-effective system for disaster recovery and provides a high resistance to failure of physical infrastructure, and thus the reliability of the entire IT infrastructure. With this approach, total cost can be reduced, and the deployment speed (flexibility) can be increased significantly compared to non-virtualized systems. There are also some disadvantages and potential problems in working with virtualized servers. Some of the disadvantages are single point of system failure; need for better hardware performance; system performance may decrease; additional training for personnel to work with new tools. Potential problem with single point of system failure relates to the possibility of system failure and it can be eliminated by using two servers functioning redundantly in a cluster. The need for better hardware performance as the second potential problem comes from running multiple virtual machines on a single server which needs hardware that has significantly better performance than individual servers.
References
Jonikas, L. (2018). Creating a Hyper-V 2016 Virtualization Lab Environment.
Perumal, K., Mohan, S., Frnda, J., & Divakarachari, P. B. (2022). Dynamic resource provisioning and secured file sharing using virtualization in cloud azure. Journal of Cloud Computing, 11(1), 1-12.
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