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CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 · Domain 2: Server administration

Virtualization: Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisors, host vs guest, resource allocation and overcommitment, virtual switches and NICs, snapshots, templates, VM migration

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Virtualization runs many independent virtual machines (VMs) on one physical server. It raises hardware utilization, speeds up provisioning and makes it easy to move or recover workloads. The software that makes this possible is the hypervisor.

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