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. Thank You