There is a lot of talk of the next level virtualization being taken to the “cloud”. There are essentially three kinds of virtualization cloud infrastructure available, they are predominantly private and public clouds and recently a Hybrid cloud, which is a fusion of private and public cloud. In this article we will explain what is the difference between private and. 

As we all know, Microsoft has made available its Hypervisor called Hyper-V made available for free to end users, also starting with Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1, Hyper-V is made available within the operating system by itself. In order to understand the difference between Microsoft’s free Hyper-V server and the paid version, we must understand the different flavours of Microsoft Hyper-V. 

vSphere 5 is the latest offering from VMWare in its datacenter virtualization line of products. There have been few major changes, such as there is no longer an ESX server. ESXi  is the new baremetal hypervisor used in the vSphere suite.  What used to be called ESXi free server is now called  vSphere free Hypervisor. ESXi is essentially the new ESX server but a thinner version of ESX with. 

I wanted to mention another excellent online resource to you for learning virtualization and that is Microsoft’s Virtual Labs. We try our best to bring you the best virtualization resources possible (see our post about using VMWare GO service to implement VMWare VSphere). Microsoft provides several resources to learn Hyper-V (its baremetal virtualization hypervisor) as well as various. 

Modern day machines come with support for hardware virtualization technology at the BIOS level. This is also called VT (Virtualization Technology) for BIOS or Hardware Assisted Virtualization or x86 virtualization. The use of BIOS Virtualization became prevelant when Microsoft released Windows Vista and a lot of applications from Windows XP were not compatible with the Vista OS. Microsoft.