Hypervisors in an IaaS environment enable the support and management of large numbers of virtual machines, allowing for efficient resource allocation and scalability.
Here are some examples of hypervisors:
- VMware vSphere/ESXi: VMware vSphere is a popular enterprise-level virtualization platform that includes VMware ESXi, a bare-metal hypervisor.
- Microsoft Hyper-V: Hyper-V is a hypervisor developed by Microsoft and is available as a standalone product or as a component of Windows Server operating systems.