Benefits of Virtualization

   Partitioning
      - Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system
      - Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
      - Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner 

   Isolation
      - Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected
      - Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections 

   Encapsulation
      - Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy
      - Standardized virtualized hardware is presented to the application - guaranteeing compatibility