A.5. Chapter 5: Managing Hyper-V Using VMM

Understand Hyper-V requirements

Hyper-V is a very different technology compared to Virtual Server. It is instead in a similar class of hypervisors as VMware ESX and Citrix XenServer. It is worth taking the time to understand the specific requirements Hyper-V has so you can plan your deployment accordingly.

Master It

Explain the difference between a microkernelized hypervisor architecture versus a monolithic hypervisor architecture, and give at least one example of each.

Solution

These terms refer to an operating system kernel design in which a microkernel defines a simple abstraction layer over the hardware that uses system calls to implement a minimal set of operating system services like memory ...

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