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Research Article Open Access

Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Malhotra L1*, Agarwal D1 and Jaiswal A2
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Student, Amity University, Noida,
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Assistant Professor, Amity University, Noida

Abstract
Cloud computing technology is one of the biggest milestones in leading us to next generation technology and
booming up business and IT field. It helps to overcome the problems of data loss, accessing data whenever needed
and data security. This technology is mainly service oriented and focuses on cost reduction, hardware reduction and
pay just for service concept. Virtualization in cloud computing is making a virtual image of the storage devices servers
or network resources so that they can be used on multiple machines at the same time.

Keywords: Virtualization; Cloud computing; Hypervisor; Host; in virtualization and cloud software and services. It is based on three
Redundancy service models that are SAAS (software as a service), PAAS (platform
as a service) and IAAS (infrastructure as a service). SAAS provides
Introduction applications to the cloud users to full fill their needs and demands.
PAAS provides the cloud users a common platform on which they
Cloud computing is one of the most useful technology that is
can execute their applications and IAAS provides the security and
been widely used all over the world. It generally provides on demand
hardware to maintain the cloud resources [5] The basic idea is to share
IT services and products. Virtualization plays a major role in cloud
large pools of resources like compute cycles or virtual CPUs (VCPUs),
computing as it provides a virtual storage and computing services to
storage, software services etc [6].
the cloud clients which is only possible through virtualization. Cloud
computing is a new business computing paradigm that is based on the Host: for virtualization the hypervisor software runs on a
concepts of virtualization, multi-tenancy, and shared infrastructure. virtualization platform i.e. is host.
This paper discusses about cloud computing, how virtualization is done
Hypervisor: the software program which handles the virtual
in cloud computing, virtualization basic architecture, its advantages
machine to work under the virtually simulated environment is called
and effects [1].
hypervisor.
Cloud computing
Traditional Servers and Virtual Servers
“Cloud computing technology is based on three factors- grid
computing, utility computing and automatic computing.” It plays a very important infrastructure in the cloud computing
technology. It receives the requests sent by they cloud users and
All the data is stored on the servers and can be accessed simply
by authenticating with the help of the internet anywhere in the world.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. are the biggest cloud service providers CLOUD CLIENT
provide very large storage to its users and making the work easier [2].
Virtualization
Virtualization is basically making a virtual image or “version” of SERVICE MODELS
something such as server, operating system, storage devices or network
resources so that they can be used on multiple machines at the same
time.
VIRTUALISED LAYER OR HOST
The main aim of virtualization is to manage the workload by
transforming traditional computing to make it more scalable, efficient
and economical. Virtualization can be applied to a wide range such
as operating system virtualization, hardware-level virtualization and
server virtualization. HARDWARE AND RESOURCES

Figure 1: Basic architecture.

Virtualization technology is hardware reducing cost saving and
energy saving technology that is rapidly transforming the fundamental
way of computing [3].
*Corresponding author: Malhotra L, Department of Computer Science and
Architecture of Virtualized Technology Engineering, Amity University, Noida, Tel: 0120-2445252/4713600; E-mail:
[email protected]
In cloud computing space/memory is virtually allocated to the users
in the servers which requires a host (platform) on which hypervisor Received September 02, 2014; Accepted December 01, 2014; Published
December 12, 2014
(software which interacts with the hardware) runs [4] (Figure 1).
The virtualization model is consisting of cloud users, service models, Citation: Malhotra L, Agarwal D, Jaiswal A (2014) Virtualization in Cloud
virtualized models and its host software and as well as their hardware. Computing. J Inform Tech Softw Eng 4: 136. doi:10.4172/2165-7866.1000136
Virtualization software makes it possible to run multiple operating Copyright: © 2014 Malhotra L, et al. This is an open-access article distributed
systems and multiple applications on the same server at the same time,” under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
said Mike Adams, director of product marketing at VMware, a pioneer original author and source are credited.

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Advancement for Real World

There are many positive and negative effects of virtualization
technology on the environment as well as the business and IT field.
Temperature
Virtualization technology is based on the group of hardware
machines due to which a large amount of heat is released when they are
used. So to overcome this problem special cooling mechanism should
be employed to cool them and rise its performance.
Figure 2: Old Traditional server concept.
Energy consumption
With virtualization the power consumption due to machines has
reduced as the number of hardware machines has been reduced which
makes this technology more efficient and eco friendly.
Redundancy
Redundancy is basically the repetition of data which is mainly
encountered when the systems don’t shares a common storage and
different memory storages are created. Due to the large number of
data centres the fault tolerance is very high due to which redundancy
is reduced.
Figure 3: Virtual server concept [3]. Virtual Upgradable Model Figure 4.
Types of virtualization
formulates it and also performs various tasks. In cloud computing the virtualization can be done in two ways
either by storage virtualization or by software virtualization.
Basic traditional servers
a. Storage virtualization: The storage available is virtualized to get
Traditionally the servers that were used has a lost of disadvantages
large virtual storage access and it is further used for allocating memory
and were not at all cost effective. “These servers are maintained by to the cloud clients.
system administrator, normally these servers are described as combined
unit that consist of operating system, the hardware, the storage and the b. Software virtualization: software built by the company can
application” [7]. In traditional server if the storage becomes full then it be used by a large number of systems at the same time with the help
has to be replaced by a new server (Figure 2). of virtualization. A virtual layer is created on which the software is
installed and used [8].
● Merits
Why Virtualization?
a. Things are easily deployed in them.
With the help of virtualization we can increase the use of resources
b. Easy to maintain backup. available to us in many to get more benefits.
c. Application can be run virtually with traditional servers. We should virtualize because of the following reasons:
● Demerits a. Isolation among users: one user should be isolated from the
other users so that he/she may not get information about the others
a. Hardware maintenance is very cost effective.
user’s data and usage and cannot even access other’s data.
b. Duplication is very difficult. b. Resource sharing: a big resource can be fragmented into
c. Physical infrastructure cannot be updated. multiple virtual resources so that it can be used by multiple users using
virtualization technique.
d. Redundancy implementation is very difficult [4].
c. Dynamical resources: reallocation of resources such as storage
Virtual server and computational resources is very difficult but if they are virtualised
“Virtual server seeks to encapsulate the server software away from
the hardware the virtual server consists of the operating system (os),
storage and application” [7]. By maintaining virtual server we can
reduce the service provided by the cloud provider (Figure 3) [3].
● Merits
a. IT pool maintenance.
b. High availability of hardware.
c. Deployment of servers in virtually based environment [4]. Figure 4: Upgradable Model.

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then they can be easily re-allocated. d. Good service quality for computational resources
d. Aggregation of resources: the small resources available can be e. Good service quality for computational resources
increased at a large extent with the help of virtualization [9].
f. Problem of geographical distance between clients and servers can
Benefits of Virtualization Technology be avoided

a. Virtualization is one of the cost-saving, hardware-reducing and g. Band width will be sufficient for the users
energy-saving technique. h. Data redundancy is reduced
b. It helped to make cloud computing more efficient and eco-
friendly.
Challenges
One of the major problems which can be faced by using this
c. A big step towards new technology making life easier and better.
technology are mass data loss, infected application and data integrity.
d. Isolation.
a. Mass data loss: If some calamity hits the datacentres then it
e. Resource sharing. might destroy the data stored in the datacentres or might
shutdown servers.
f. Aggregation of resources.
b. Infected application: If a virus is infects one file then it may
g. Dynamical resource.
corrupt whole system.
Benefits of Cloud Computing c. Data integrity: The integrity of data can be affected as anyone
Cloud computing provides lots of benefits to the users and makes can access it from anywhere [10].
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