Session 04

Question 1

What are Hypervisors?

Answer 1

SW that create and manage virtual machines by abstracting the hardware resources of a physical host.

Question 2

Hyperviso types?

Answer 2

1. Type 1: Bare metal
2. Type 2 : Hosted

Question 3

Examples for each two type of hypervisors?

Answer 3

Type 1:
1. VMware ESXi
2. Microsoft Hyper-V
3. Xen
4. KVM

Type 2 :
1. VMware Workstation
2. Oracle Virtualbox
3. Parrallel Desktop
4. Microsoft Hyper-V

Question 4

Use cases for each type of Hypervisors?

Answer 4

Type 1 :
1. Data centers
2. Cloud services
3. Enterprise applications

Type 2 :
1. Development and Testing
2. Educational Purpose
3. Personal use

Question 5

Difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors?

Answer 5

Type1 :
* High performance
* High security
* High scalability
* More complex
* Expensive

Type 2 :
* Low performace
* Low Security
* Low Scalability
* Simpler
* Free or lower cost

Question 6

Core features of Hypervisors?

Answer 6

1. VM isolation
2. Resource manamgement
3. Resource overcommitment
4. Hardware abstraction
5. Live migration
6. High Availability
7. Fault tolerance