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Which physical component is distributed among multiple virtual machines running on the same hypervisor?
The correct answer is D. hardware resources. The question asks to identify a physical component that is shared and allocated among multiple virtual machines operating on a single hypervisor.
Question
Which physical component is distributed among multiple virtual machines running on the same hypervisor?
Options
- Aexternal storage
- Bnetwork interfaces
- Cbackplane network
- Dhardware resources
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- C8% (3)
- D87% (34)
Why each option
The question asks to identify a physical component that is shared and allocated among multiple virtual machines operating on a single hypervisor.
External storage is typically accessed by VMs but is not necessarily distributed among them as a single shared physical component of the hypervisor's immediate resources in the same way CPU/RAM are.
While VMs use virtual network interfaces, the underlying physical network interface card (NIC) is usually dedicated or shared at a more granular level by the hypervisor, not explicitly distributed as a primary resource type in the same manner as CPU and memory.
A backplane network is an internal communication bus within a physical server or chassis, connecting components, but it is not directly 'distributed' to virtual machines; rather, VMs use resources connected to it.
Hardware resources, such as CPU cores, RAM, and I/O bandwidth, are virtualized and distributed by the hypervisor among all the virtual machines running on the physical host. Each VM is allocated a logical slice of these underlying physical resources to operate.
Concept tested: Virtualization resource sharing on hypervisors
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-server-2016/hyper-v-concepts
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