An administrator is configuring a new server to run a hypervisor installation from a PXE boot. Which of the following BEST describes the hypervisor being installed on this machine?

A Type I bare-metal hypervisor runs directly on server hardware, but this classification describes the hypervisor's relationship to the hardware rather than the specific installation medium or boot device involved in a PXE provisioning workflow.

Hypervisors such as VMware ESXi are frequently installed to an internal or externally attached USB flash drive, and PXE boot is a standard network-based mechanism used to deliver and write that installer image to the target USB device. After provisioning, the server boots the hypervisor directly from the USB drive on every subsequent startup, making USB-based the best description of this installation type.

A cloud-based hypervisor is hosted and managed within a cloud provider's infrastructure rather than installed locally on a physical server, which is the opposite of the on-premises PXE boot scenario described.

A Type II hypervisor runs on top of an existing host operating system and relies on the OS for hardware access, whereas PXE-based hypervisor deployment targets direct hardware installation without a prior OS.