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What (who) is virtual disk - definition

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS THAT EMULATE AN ACTUAL DISK STORAGE DEVICE
Disk image emulator; Virtual drive; Virtual Drive; Disc image emulator; Virtual disk

virtual disk         
Logical disk         
UNIT OF STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION
Vdisk; VDisk; Logical device
A logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD or vdisk for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive(s) in a computer system. The disk is described as logical or virtual because it does not actually exist as a single physical entity in its own right.
Virtual hosting         
METHOD THAT SERVERS SUCH AS WEBSERVERS USE TO HOST MORE THAN ONE DOMAIN NAME ON THE SAME COMPUTER
Virtual host; Vhost; Add-on domain; Addon domain; Name-based Virtual Host; IP-based Virtual Host; Virtual hosts; Virtual Hosting; Virtual web hosting; Virtual domain
Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers). This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name.

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Virtual disk and virtual drive

Virtual disk and virtual drive are software components that emulate an actual disk storage device.

Virtual disks and virtual drives are common components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for the creation of logical disks.