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Cloud virtualization resources

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Cloud virtualization resources

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As you're well aware, a cloud hypervisor is critical software that enables the sharing of CSP physical compute and memory resources across multiple virtual machines. It supports a single physical layer, which, in the data center, is a cluster of hypervisors that are independently running multiple guest virtual machines, each with their own operating systems that are logically partitioned if necessary. We call that multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy assures that one guest VM will have no effect on the other guest VMs, operating systems or even the applications that are running on them. And although there are several multiple types of VMs, they all enable a single set of physical server hardware, the underlying CPU, memory, datastore, as well as peripherals. As you're well aware, there are two main types of cloud hypervisors, Type 1 and Type 2, but we also have Open Source, KVM, very popular at Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. KVM stands for Kernel-Based Virtual Machine. It's a…

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