The purpose of this web page is to show others the benefits of virtual computers along with clustering them. Information will be provided explaining the difference between virtual machines and physical machines and how companies use them in their IT environment. The target audience for this web page will be more towards hobbyists but not limited to students who are interested in this type of computer processing. My website will be for informational purposes, only to educate other people who are interested in centralizing information using the processing power of the cluster machines.

A Virtual Machine (VM) is a software implementation of a computer environment. This means that it is a computer in a virtual environment being run by strictly software. These machines share the processor and ram of the physical machine it is on.

This is an example of how the physical machine shares the CPU (Processor) with the vCPU (Virtual Processor). As you can see, the VMs are using physical resources in order for to work. Virtual Machines are a form of "sandbox", which runs in its own virtual space and unaffected by the space of the physical machine. The nature of the sandbox forms its own type of security which attracted many businesses. The businesses ended up adopting the use of VMs because of the unique security and shared resources, thus lowering the capital and reducing the number of computers that need to be purchased.