5620 SAM Nuage Virtualization overview

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ESXi - vmware hypervisor
it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel
ESXi, which does not include a Linux kernel
A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software,
firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
Each virtual machine is called a guest machine
Type-1: native or bare-metal hypervisors
run directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and to manage guest
operating systems.
A guest operating system runs as a process on the host
Type-2: hosted hypervisors
These hypervisors run on a conventional operating system just as other computer
programs do.
Type-2 hypervisors abstract guest operating systems from the host operating syst
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vCenter
---------------VMware vCenter Server is the centralized management tool for the vSphere suite.
VMware vCenter Server allows for the management of multiple ESX servers and virt
ual machines (VMs) from different ESX
servers through a single console application.
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An SDN Controller in a software-defined network (SDN) is the brains of the network
.
It is the strategic control point in the SDN network, relaying information to th
e switches/routers
below (via southbound APIs) and the applications and business logic above (via north
bound APIs)