The hypervisor is a critical component of and foundation of a virtual infrastructure. VMware was the first to bring a bare-metal hypervisor to market back in 2001 and since then has continued perfecting it by adding features in response to ever-increasing customer needs. Today, as virtualization becomes ubiquitous, companies both small and large, are looking beyond simple server consolidation as a reason to adopt virtualization. Fundamental characteristics of a hypervisor are:
- Have a purpose-built, thin OS independent architecture for enhanced reliability and robustness
- Make optimal use of available hardware resources
- Deliver performance acceleration features that support mission critical applications
- Enable advanced capabilities not previously possible on physical systems
- more info.. vmware
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