Type-1 Hypervisors

I know that we covered what are type-1 hypervisors way back in Module 1. We have looked at type-2 hypervisors and containers. We will now move on to type-1 hypervisors and we will look at two different ones (this module and Module 6). This page is just being provided as a quick easy way to remind you what a type-1 hypervisor is. 

A type 1 hypervisor you will hear often referred to as a 'bare-metal hypervisor'. This is due to the fact that a type 1 hypervisor is installed directly on top of a physical server. A type 1 hypervisor does not require an OS or any software to be installed.  A type 1 hypervisor is itself a very basic OS, which provides the ability to run VMs.  An enterprise environment will typical use type 1 hypervisors.

Examples of type 1 hypervisors:

• KVM (Kernel-Based Virtual Machine)

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

• Citrix XenServer

• Proxmox

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• VMware vSphere/ESXi

• SmartOS