The power of server virtualization and network virtualization
Server virtualization is the mainframe for the 21st century. A key use of virtualization in modern-day business is to consolidate the existing infrastructure to fewer physical machines. All companies have already virtualized their infrastructure since that is a potential game changer as we could consolidate servers and management, and deployment became much simpler. A hypervisor is a piece of software that allows us to run multiple virtual machines. The following are two types of hypervisors:
- Bare metal: Bare metal or type-1 hypervisors are pieces of software running directly on hardware, for example, VMware ESXi, KVM, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Hosted: Hosted or type-2 ...
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