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Advantages of hypervisors
What if you don’t have the luxury of being a single tenant as in a bare metal model? Perhaps
you handle a dynamic workload and need to utilize resources round the clock. Hypervisors,
too, have quite a huge number of benefits particularly for workloads that need to be run and
spun for a relatively short period of time before turning them off.
 Quick scalability: If you need more server space, a hypervisor can easily grant you
additional servers in no time.
 Ease of backup: Virtual machines allow for a smooth and seamless backup protection
compared to traditional applications. The process of securing a backup is complicated and
time-consuming hence can cause serious downtime. With VMs, snapshots of data can be
captured and saved in record time making the process easier and manageable.