Hypervisor and Its Benefits: A Detailed Analysis of Its Architecture

This report provides an overview of hypervisors, detailing their architecture and benefits in the context of virtualization. It explains how hypervisors facilitate the separation between the operating system and hardware, enabling the efficient use of resources such as CPU cycles, network bandwidth, and memory. The report discusses the architecture of virtualization, including hosted and bare-metal approaches, and highlights the advantages of hypervisors such as improved resource management, isolation of virtual machines, and enhanced flexibility. It also touches upon the different types of hypervisors (Type 1 and Type 2) and their role in controlling hardware resources. The report concludes by emphasizing the overall benefits of hypervisors in increasing productivity, improving efficiency, and reducing hardware costs, making them crucial for cloud computing and modern IT infrastructure.

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Introduction
Hypervisor is a method that helps in separation between the operating system of the
computer and the applications. The separation is done with respect to the physical hardware.
The hypervisor helps in driving the idea of virtualization by giving permission the host
machine for operating multiple virtual based machine in order to maximize the efficiency of
the different resources of the computer (Desai et al., 2013). The different computing
resources are the CPU cycles, the network bandwidth and the memory. The hypervisor
technology helps in driving innovation related with the cloud computing technology.
Architecture
Virtualization is a type of hypervisor. The hypervisor is used to isolate the operating
systems and the different applications which is used as the computer hardware. The model of
the virtualization hypervisor is a conceptual model which helps in specifying the different
arrangements and the relationship between the different components (Eder, 2016).The
virtualization architecture helps in managing the different physical and the virtual resources
of the system. In the hosted architecture the hardware is installed at the initial stage. After the
installation of the hardware the virtual machine is installed. The software is used to installed
different multiple operating systems. The installed application is then run on the system. The
architecture helps the development of the software and support various types of operating
systems. There are different unreliable factors related to the hardware resources. However,
with the help of the architecture various types of troubleshoot is solved. The management of
all the layers can be done properly with the hypervisor. The architecture is different from that
of the traditional model of hypervisor.

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Benefits of the Hypervisor
There are various benefits of using the hypervisor. The virtual hypervisor are
separated logically from one another. The main benefit is that if one of the virtual machine is
crashed or not working properly due to the different malware. The effect is not extended to
the nearby or rather to the next virtual machine (Perez-Botero, Szefer & Lee, 2013). The
virtual machine is like the mobiles as they work independently. The VM can be easily
migrated to different places. The process is easy as all the work is done by the machine.
Mainly there are two different hypervisors. The name of the hypervisor are Type1 and Type2.
The hypervisor helps in controlling the different hardware present in the system. In simple
terms the hypervisor is known as the virtual machine monitor. With the help of the hypervisor
the host computer can operate multiple computers. It also helps in sharing the different
resources. The resources are related with the processing and the memory of the computer.
The virtualization requirement is very less as it requires few number of servers and helps in
expanding the lifespan of the hardware. It brings positive transformation for the entire
systems and reduces the costs of the hardware. The virtualization also helps in improving the
provision of the server and finding better solutions for disaster recovery. However, the
overall benefit of the hypervisor is that it increases the productivity and improves the
efficiency (Morabito, Kjällman & Komu, 2015).
Conclusion
It can be concluded that there are different type of hypervisor. All the hypervisor
consists of different architecture. The hypervisor is used to improve the efficiency and to
overcome all the limitations. However, the hypervisor provides different flexibility and helps
the end users. The hypervisor works with the help of the different overheads and maintains
the entire system.

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