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Difficulty: MediumType 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors

An enterprise organization plans to host multiple high-utilization virtual machines on a centralized server. To optimize compute performance and minimize latency, the IT team requires the hypervisor to install directly on the bare-metal hardware without relying on an underlying host operating system. Which hypervisor architecture meets these requirements?

  1. Type 1 hypervisorAnswer
  2. B
    Type 2 hypervisor
  3. C
    Storage Area Network hypervisor
  4. D
    Infrastructure as a Service hypervisor

Answer

A Type 1 hypervisor installs directly onto physical server hardware, operating as a bare-metal virtualization layer to minimize latency and resource overhead.
A Type 1 hypervisor (also known as a bare-metal hypervisor) is installed directly onto the host server hardware. Because there is no general-purpose operating system between the hardware and the hypervisor layer, guest virtual machines benefit from direct physical resource access, minimal latency, and lower resource overhead.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze requirement
The requirement specifies direct installation on bare-metal hardware without an intermediate host OS.
Direct hardware interaction removes OS overhead and reduces latency for resource-intensive virtual machines.
2
Compare hypervisor types
Type 1 hypervisors execute directly on physical host hardware, whereas Type 2 hypervisors run inside a conventional host OS.
Selecting Type 1 satisfies the zero-host-OS requirement.

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Type 1 vs Type 2 Hypervisors
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Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors

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