what-is-virtualization

Types of hypervisor in vsphere

  • VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V is a software layer implemented by hypervisors. But hypervisors can also be implemented as code embedded in a system’s firmware.
  • There are two principal types of hypervisor.
hypervisor-types

Type-1, native or bare-metal hypervisors

  • These hypervisors run on the host’s hardware to manage guest operating systems and to control the hardware.
  • For this purpose, it is called as bare-metal hypervisors.

Type-2 or hosted hypervisors

  • These hypervisors run on the operating system (OS) just as other computer programs do.
  • In the host runs the guest operating system. Type-2 hypervisors abstract guest operating systems from the host operating system

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