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HyperVisor (or Virtual Machine Manager(VMM))

Type I. Bare-Metal Hypervisor

subtype

  • Monolithic (small space: hypervisor)

  • Microkernel (large space: hypervisor + hyper-v driver)

ex:

  • VMware ESXi (Monolithic)

  • Microsoft Hyper-V (Microkernel)

  • RedHat KVM

  • Citrix Xen Server

Type II. Hosted Hypervisor

  • Guest OS

    • Create on Host OS

  • Host OS

    • Use Hypervisor as Host OS

Vendor

  • KVM

  • VMware

IaaS Vendor

  • OpenStack

  • CloudStack

  • CloudFoundry

  • OpenNebula

  • Eucalyptus

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