Which statement describes hypervisor virtualization capabilities?
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Correct answer: The hypervisor can virtualize physical components including CPU, memory, and storage.
Why this is the answer
A hypervisor, also known as a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), is software that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs). It abstracts the physical hardware resources of a host machine, such as CPU, memory, storage, and network interfaces, and presents them as virtual resources to guest operating systems running in VMs. This allows multiple VMs to share the same underlying physical hardware. Virtualized servers are often connected to the same physical switch as the hypervisor, or even use virtual switches within the hypervisor, making the first option incorrect. A single hypervisor can support multiple virtual machines and multiple virtual switches, disproving the third option. Hypervisors operate at a lower level, primarily dealing with Layer 2 (data link) and Layer 1 (physical) aspects of network virtualization, relying on the guest OS for Layer 3 (network) communication, making the last option incorrect.
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