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Hypervisor

The document discusses different types of hypervisors including type 1 native hypervisors like ESX, Hyper-V, XenServer and Oracle VM that run directly on hardware and type 2 hosted hypervisors like VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Oracle VirtualBox and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization that run on a host operating system. It provides examples of popular hypervisors for each type and some of their key features.

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Hypervisor

The document discusses different types of hypervisors including type 1 native hypervisors like ESX, Hyper-V, XenServer and Oracle VM that run directly on hardware and type 2 hosted hypervisors like VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Oracle VirtualBox and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization that run on a host operating system. It provides examples of popular hypervisors for each type and some of their key features.

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Hypervisor

Introduction

• Virtualization means creating more logical IT resources, called


virtual systems, within one physical system.

• Hypervisor is what controls and allocates what portion of


hardware resources each operating system should get.

• Manages what every one of them to get what they need and
not to disrupt each other.
Types Of Hypervisor

• Type 1 (native) Hypervisor: Hypervisors run directly on the


system hardware – A “bare metal” embedded hypervisor.
Type 1 Hypervisor
• VMware ESX and ESXi : Offer advanced features and
scalability, but require licensing, so the costs are higher.

• Microsoft Hyper-V : Doesn’t offer many of the advanced


features. available in both a free edition, 4 commercial
editions

• Citrix XenServer : Just as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization


uses KVM (Kernel Based VM), Citrix uses Xen in the
commercial XenServer.

• Oracle VM : The Oracle hypervisor is based on the open


source Xen. However, if you need hypervisor support and
product updates, it will cost you.
Types Of Hypervisor
• Type 2 (hosted) Hypervisor: Hypervisors run on a host
operating system that provides virtualization services, such as
I/O device support and memory management.
Type 2 Hypervisor
• VMware Workstation/Fusion/Player : It is free & some advanced
features, such as record-and-replay and VM snapshot support.

• Microsoft Virtual PC : Runs only on Windows 7 and supports


only Windows operating systems running on it.

• Oracle VM VirtualBox : Despite being a free, hosted product with


a very small footprint, VirtualBox shares many features with
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization : Has qualities of both a


hosted and a bare-metal virtualization hypervisor. It can turn the
Linux kernel itself into a hypervisor so the VMs have direct access
to the physical hardware.
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