Mod 3: Provisioning and Migrating Cloud Resources

What do compute heavy workloads rely on?

vCPU, memory, GPU

What do data intensive workloads rely on?

High IOPS storage

What are the 2 types of hypervisors?

Type 1. type 2

What is the difference between type 1 and 2 hypervisors?

Type 1 run directly on hardware, type 2 runs as an application

What is oversubscription?

Assigning more resources to VMs than the host system has available

What are preconfigured VMs that CSPs provide called?

Instances

What are the 6 most common instances that AWS provides?

General purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, accelerated computing, storage optimized, HPC optimized

How do you calculate vCPUs?

Cores x threads = vCPU

What are pass-through GPUs?

Gives a VM direct access to an entire GPU, bypassing the hypervisor

What is the difference between a vCPU/vGPU and a normal CPU/GPU?

vCPU/GPUs are shared resources not allocated to a single client

What does compute usually refer to?

CPU + memory