H - Definitions
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hardware emulation
Hardware emulation is the use of one hardware device to mimic the function of another hardware device.
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hardware security
Hardware security is vulnerability protection that comes in the form of a physical device rather than software that's installed on the hardware of a computer system.
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hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization, which is also known as server virtualization or simply virtualization, is the abstraction of computing resources from the software that uses those resources.
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hardware-assisted virtualization
Hardware-assisted virtualization is the use of a computer's physical components to support the software that creates and manages virtual machines (VMs).
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HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a software company that provides a suite of modular DevOps infrastructure provisioning and management products.
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host virtual machine (host VM)
A host virtual machine is the server component of a virtual machine (VM), the underlying hardware that provides computing resources to support a particular guest virtual machine (guest VM).
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hypervisor
A hypervisor is software that facilitates running multiple virtual machines (VMs) with their own operating systems on a single computer host's hardware.