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 ...