While designing a new virtualization cluster, a technician wants the hypervisor to run directly on the server hardware so that Windows and Linux virtual machines can be created without the overhead of an underlying host operating system. Which of the following hypervisor types should the technician choose to meet this requirement?
A hypervisor that installs directly on the server hardware without relying on a host operating system is classified as a Type 1, or bare-metal, hypervisor. Because it interfaces with the physical resources natively, it delivers lower latency and less overhead than a hosted (Type 2) hypervisor, which must first load inside an existing OS. Containers and application-streaming services do not provide full virtual machine abstraction and therefore would not satisfy the stated requirement.
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