Virtual network concepts

Long ago, whenever IT professionals set up a server within their organization, the server operating system was installed directly on the storage device, such as the Hard Disk Drive (HDD). If you wanted to install another operating system on the same HDD, you would need to create a logical partition on the HDD and install the second operating system on the new partition. However, when powering on the physical server, only one operating system can be booted in the memory of the server. While running a single operating system at a time on a computer or server, the operating system has full access to all the hardware-based components, such as the processor, memory modules, storage drives, and so on. This allows the operating system to operate to its fullest potential and leverage all the available computing power to perform tasks and calculations.

However, an operating system does not always utilize hardware-based components all the time. There are many times...