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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Technologies used by cloud providers

A cloud platform is a combination of various technologies tied together to create a hyper-converged platform. The three basic technologies that lay the foundation of a cloud are as follows:

  • Hypervisor: A hypervisor is a combination of software, firmware, and sometimes hardware that is capable of running a virtual machine. A hypervisor that is capable of running a virtual machine on bare metal hardware is referred to as a Type 1 hypervisor. For example, VMWare ESXi server and Microsoft Hyper-V server are Type 1 hypervisors. The hypervisors that run on an operating system are referred to as Type 2 hypervisors. For example, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMWare Workstation are Type 2 hypervisors. OpenStack uses ...
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ISBN: 9781788830874Supplemental Content