Hyper-V architecture
After the extensive information gathering from virtualization as a technology, and server consolidation as a technique to take advantage of virtualization, let's move on to the next section of this chapter. Here we will discuss Hyper-V architecture, and will go deeper to understand how different Hyper-V architectural components work together to provide hardware-assisted virtualization.
Before we jump in to discuss the core elements of Hyper-V architecture, let's first quickly see the definition of a hypervisor, and its available types, to better understand the Hyper-V architecture as a hypervisor.
Hypervisor
Hypervisor is a term used to describe the software stack, or sometimes operating system feature, that allows us to create ...
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