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Virtualization & Orchestration
How metal is sliced and scheduled: the hypervisor carving servers into VPS and cloud instances, and the container orchestration that container-native hosts run instead. The panels that provision and resell those instances sit one layer up, in Shared & VPS Panel.
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Switching cost. The deepest switch in the stack: moving hypervisor means requalifying images, tooling, and every automation above it. Broadcom's 2023 VMware acquisition reset cloud-service-provider licensing, which is why this layer moved for a lot of providers who had not planned to move.