Research Article

Empirical Analysis of Server Consolidation and Desktop Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Table 1

Hypervisor architecture.

VMMHypervisor architecture

VMware ESXi 5.0 (Redhat Linux)Bare-metal/monolithic
MS Hyper-V R2 (Windows Server 2008)Bare-metal/microkernel
Proxmox VE* (Debian)Hosted
KVM* (Ubuntu Enterprise Server)Hosted
Xen* (Cent OS)Bare-metal/microkernel

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