Microsoft Windows Hypervisor
The Hypervisor is a thin layer of software that sits between the hardware and the operating system allowing one physical machine to run mutiple operating systems in different vitrual machines at the same time. It is also responsible for maintaining isolation between different Hyper-V partitions.
Features of Hyper-V
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation- Allows administrators to install virtual machines on properly activated server systems without individual product keys for each virtual machine.
Discrete Device Assignment- Allows an admin to take full advantage of performance and appliction compatibility improvements by allowing the systems graphics card to be directly assinged to a virtual machine.
Dynamic Memory- Allows Hyper-V to balance memory automatically among running virtual machines.
Windows Server 2022 has a feature called Hyper-V nesting that allows you to run a vitual machine in a virtual machine this can be useful in a training situation.
A nice feature in Hyper-V is ablility to keep virtual networks isolated from the physical network infrastructure of the hosted system, admins can setup Hyper-V software defined virtualization policies so you are not limited by the IP address assignment or VLAN isolation requirements of the physical network.