Comparing Virtualization Technologies: VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox

This report provides a comparative analysis of three major virtualization platforms: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VirtualBox. The report begins by defining virtualization and its significance in creating virtual machines that operate independently from underlying hardware. It delves into the features, functionalities, and operating system compatibility of each platform, including VMware's portability and enterprise capabilities, Microsoft Hyper-V's integration with Windows Server, and VirtualBox's versatility across different operating systems. The report also provides recommendations for optimizing networking performance and VM storage. Finally, the report concludes with a discussion on the advantages of open-source standards in virtualization and the importance of fair access to proprietary software. The report uses references to support the analysis.

Introduction
This refers mainly to the act which is to create a virtual version which includes the virtual
computer hardware platforms, storage devices and the storage network resources. The
virtualisation has been mainly for the creation of a virtual machine which works with the
operating system and takes hold of the virtual machines that are separated from the underlying
hardware resources (Mir et al., 2016). Here, the host machines are considered to be the actual
machine on the virtualisation which takes place. Here, the guest machines are the virtual
machines as well. We are going to focus on VMWare, Microsoft Hyper V and Virtual box for
the comparison and for the different features.
VMware
This software works over the virtualised sets of windows for the guest OS, where they tend to
virtualise the hardware for a proper video adapter, network and the hard disk serial. The
VMWare virtual machines tend to become portable between the computers mainly the hosts are
found to be identical to the guests. The VMware virtual machines are highly portable between
the computers as every host looks identical to the guests. The enterprise servers with the vMotion
allow the migration of the operations and take hold of the hardware hosts with sharing the same
storage as well. The use of the same is done by the Dell technologies which provide a better
computing platform for the virtualisation software and handling the services as well. It runs on
Windows, Linux and MacOS (Donaldson et al., 2017). Here, the enterprise works without
requiring any of the additional forms of the underlying operating systems.
Microsoft Hyper V
This is for the Windows Server which is mainly to create the virtual machines on the system that
is running on the windows. The Hyper-V is superseded with the virtualisation components. The
server computer is easily configured to expose the individual virtual machines with one-to-one
network. It works over the Windows which has been mainly on x86-64 editions of Windows
Server 2008, where there are limitations for the windows services and is also limited to the
command line interface (Lubomski et al., 2016). This is for configuring the host OS, physical
hardware and the software. The operating system using this are Windows Server, Vista, Linux
and FreeBSD. The companies like Cisco, Microsoft use this for the functioning. The product
contains the Windows Server driver model which could be for the management process and
supporting the tools with provisioning standards as well.
Virtual Box
The Oracle VirtualBox is for the creation and the management of the different guest virtual
machines with the derivation of the Windows, Linux and the OS systems where the packages are
for the device drivers and the applications. This works over the software for a better and personal
use where there is emulated environment where the user can easily configure about the VM
under the software based virtualisation that holds the applications of the host and the guest OS
(Ferrari, 2017). The software based approach is to adapt the standards which include the
configuration of the guest OS code and the privilege instructions which are important for the
employing of the codes.
Recommendations

For the VirtualBox, VMWare, and the Microsoft Hyper V, there is a proper use of facilities
which includes the separation of the address space with handling the storage of the data and the
files that are mainly in the single virtual hard disk. It is important to focus on the networking
performance by eliminating the needs of specific hardware interface. This will help in handling
the features and support set to run and control the guest applications for the automated software
deployments. The VM storage scheme is for the VM data which is to improve the portability and
then holding the extension packs for the closed source. The performance need to be mapped with
new VM storage so that the data could improve the portability as well.
Conclusion
The OS has been for GUI which could be based on keeping it completely contrasting and fair.
This is noted when the company is taking hold of the marketing of the different standards and
working over the access of proprietary software which is providing a double profit as well. The
open source standards are also available for the people with easy coding methods that are on the
internet.
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