They say it`s better to see once than to hear 100 times. If you`re into the one of the hottest buzzwords in the past few months – virtualization – check out the most comprehensive showcase of virtualization schemes and infographics. We have prepared this to show you the various concepts used by different vendors, to help you understand the structure of virtualized environments & last, but not the least to inspire you, if you are looking for some nice graphic schemes (maybe for school, or business startup?) ;)

All graphics are divided into four basic categories:

  1. Virtualization architecture & infrastructure (i.e. how it all works)

  2. Before & after virtualization (differences between systems before & after virtualizing the hardware)

  3. Virtualization types and taxonomy

  4. advantages of virtualization and other cool infographics

Category #1 – before & after virtualization

No.1 – nice visualisation of hardware distribution before & after virtualization. here you can clearly see the possibility to virtualize (divide) single piece of hardware into several virtual machines, which run various guest operating systems, while they act as a regular physical machines, unable to interfere into each others processes.

original image source: mysite.stonybrook.edu

No.2 – a scheme showing the trend of entire operating systems virtualized & managed using a hypervisor

original image source: http://techbuddha.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/pc-client-virtualization.png