Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition

Understanding Hyper-V architecture

The Hyper-V architecture is based on a hierarchical format where the first level represents the hypervisor as the main element that constitutes the Hyper-V virtual platform. Thus, a hypervisor is accommodated at the root and has direct access to hardware devices. The root component then creates branch OSes that represent isolated executable environments. Specifically, the branched OS represents a logical unit of isolation that has no access to hardware devices. Then, on these parts, it will be possible to run guest OSes. Components such as the virtualization service provider (VSP) and virtualization service consumer (VSC), through logical channels for communication known as the virtual machine bus (VMBus ...