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.. 

In our earlier post we compared the free features of VMWare’s free Hypervisor solution called VMWare ESXi free and discussed its advantages for virtualization startup companies. In this article we will compare another bare-metal Hypervisor solution from Citrix for SMBs. The three top players today in Virtualization Infrastructure market are VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix. Citrix has. 

ESXi and ESXi free are both versions of VMWare’s baremetal Hypervisor that lets you run an enterprise class virtual infrastructure. There is a big difference between ESXi and ESXi free, ESXi is the licensed version. The download for both of the free and licensed version is the same. Once you have downloaded the ESXi version, you would be sent a license key and depending upon the free. 

One of the big branches of Virtualization these days is Network Virtualization. We touched earlier on What are different types of Virtualization and skimmed through the topic of Network Virtualization. Network Virtualization is one of the younger branches of virtualization. In this article we will go through and talk about two different types of virtualization technologies, internal virtualization. 

Hosted virtualization also called as the Management Layer Approach is simply speaking the virtualization that end users use hosted on their own Computer or Desktop. In Hosted  virtualization, you typically use your own machine’s Hardware and operating system to run a virtualization software such as VMWare Server, VMWare Workstation, Oracle Virtual Box  or Microsoft Virtual PC and.