220-1201: CompTIA A+ Certification Exam: Core 1

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Virtualization and Cloud Computing

A customer has several bare-metal servers running a mix of Windows, Linux, and Unix OSs. The customer wants to consolidate the servers but is concerned about data privacy and recurring costs. Which of the following solutions should a technician recommend?

Explanation

Because the environment mixes Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems, only a hypervisor can consolidate them, since containers share the host OS kernel and cannot run guest operating systems from a different kernel family on the same host. Installing a Type 2 hypervisor on the existing bare-metal hardware isolates each OS in its own virtual machine, keeps data on-premises for privacy, and avoids the recurring subscription costs associated with cloud IaaS or VDI.

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