--- title: Paessler Blog - All about IT, Monitoring, and PRTG | Virtualization description: Virtualization | You're an IT geek, sys-admin, or just interested in Monitoring topics? Read this blog! --- [![Paessler - The Network Monitoring Experts](https://blog.paessler.com/hubfs/logos/paessler/paessler-logo-color.svg)](https://www.paessler.com/) [Blog Home](https://blog.paessler.com) \> Virtualization # Posts about Virtualization A virtual environment, or virtualization, is a so-called 'abstract layer' that simulates the characteristics of a specific environment. These virtual environments run on regular computers and make use of their physical components, such as processors, hard drives, and storage devices. In this way, a single computer can provide multiple virtual instances, known as 'VMs', or 'Virtual Machines'. 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