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Virtualization security

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Virtualization security

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- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson on virtualization security. In this lesson, we're going to talk about four things, which are hypervisor security, container security, ephemeral computing, and then finally serverless technology. Before we really talk about hypervisor security, we should talk about the different types of hypervisors. When comparing to traditional infrastructure where we have a base layer of hardware and then on top of that, there's one operating system such as Apple's Macintosh, Linux, or Microsoft Windows. On top of that, we will have a variety of different kinds of applications that are going to run in a shared environment. In a Type 1 hypervisor or otherwise known as a bare metal hypervisor, we're going to have hardware and directly on top of the hardware, we're going to have that hypervisor layer. So some common solutions for this type of hypervisor are going to be VMware's vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. On top of this hypervisor, we'll have one or more guest…

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