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Hardware Virtualization

Hardware virtualization is a technique that uses a hypervisor and CPU-level support to create isolated virtual machines on a single physical server, enabling workload consolidation, standardized compute management, and controlled isolation of operating systems in enterprise data center and cloud environments.

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curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"hardware-virtualization"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'

REST

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It's a known term One entry, with its type (topic) name
It sits in a glossary Linked to Virtualization, Hypervisor, Compute Virtualization, Server Virtualization inDefinedTermSet
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