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Physical Server:

o The physical server vs virtual server comparison should start with the definition.
o Physical server, also known as a ‘bare-metal server,’ is ingle-tenant computer server.
o Meaning that a specific physical server is designated to use & utilize a single user.
o Resources & components of physical server are not shared between multiple users.
o Each physical server includes memory, processor, network connection, hard drive.
o Each Physical server includes operating system for running programs & applications.
o Bare-metal server is large in size due to powerful processing components that contains.

VM (Virtual Machine):
o VM is a virtualization term, which is stands for Virtual Machine.
o A virtual machine is pretty identical to a physical server except it’s virtual.
o VM is special piece of software which emulates operation of physical machine.
o Virtual hardware (CPUs, memory, storage, etc.) which runs on a hypervisor.
o VM is a software emulation of a physical server with an operating system.
o Virtual machine is a file often called hypervisor that acts as physical computer.
o Server virtualization takes the advantage of idle resources and consolidates.
o The operating system the virtual machine is installed on is called the host OS.
o the operating system of the virtual machine itself is referred to as the guest OS.

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Hypervisor:
o The hypervisor is the server virtualization software that runs on the physical server.
o All virtual hardware which powers guest OS is handled by engine called hypervisor.
o In the world of Virtualization, the hypervisor is known as virtual machine manager.
o Allocates physical resources to each of systems & ensures do not interrupt each other.
o Where create virtual machines & configure how much CPU cores, memory, storage, etc.
o The Virtualization software that creates VMs and performs the hardware abstraction.
o Virtualization software to allow multiple VMs to run concurrently is known as hypervisor.

Type 1 Hypervisor:
o Type one (1) Hypervisor is type of hypervisor runs directly on the system hardware.
o Type one (1) Hypervisor is commonly referred to as “bare metal” or “native” as well.
o Examples are VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, & Red Hat (KVM).

Type 2 Hypervisor:
o This hypervisor runs on top of an operating system like MS Windows, MacOS, or Linux.
o Type two 2 Hypervisor is the type of hypervisor that is typically used by client devices.
o This type of hypervisor for example, VMware Fusion, VMware requires a host OS to run.
o We usually use a type two (2) hypervisor on desktops or the laptops system to run VMs.
o Two popular hypervisors are Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMWare Workstation in windows.

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Advantages of VM:
o If physical server needs memory upgrade, VMs migrated to other with no downtime.
o VM is that we are familiar physical servers, easy to understand, it’s server, but virtual.
o Use all management & security tools we know to manage our physical or virtual servers.
o Multiple OS environments exist simultaneously on same machine, isolated from each other.
o VM is easy maintenance, application provisioning, availability and convenient recovery.
o Another advantage of Virtualization technology is that it provides high availability.
o For example, if a server fails, the VMs can be spun up on other servers in the network.
o Biggest point for VM, is that, it is offer the greatest amount of deployment flexibility.
o Use of virtualization normally includes redundancy to protect from single point of failure.
o Services running on VMs are virtual and dynamically installed or uninstalled, as needed.
o Advantage of virtualization is Less equipment; less energy and Less space is required.

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