Hosting Hyper-V within a virtual machine. The appliance VMs of Azure Extended Network, for instance, need it so the Hyper-V role can be turned on.
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Terms in this definition
- Hyper-V
The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.
- VM
A computer implemented entirely in software, having virtual hardware and its own guest OS; ESX hosts run it and vCenter manages it.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- Azure Extended Network
Windows Admin Center feature letting migrated VMs keep their IP addresses by stretching an on-premises subnet into Azure; two appliance VMs carry a VXLAN tunnel between them, and up to 250 addresses can be extended.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.