This document discusses virtualization and virtual machines. It provides details on popular hypervisors like VMware ESXi, Citrix Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, and Microsoft Hyper-V. It also discusses components used for virtualization like VMware Workstation, ESXi Hypervisor, Ubuntu, and Windows Server. The document then explains metrics to measure computer performance like GFLOPS and LINPACK. LINPACK is used to estimate how quickly a system can solve real problems. Some advantages and disadvantages of LINPACK are provided. Results from testing ESXi, Hyper-V, and other hypervisors using LINPACK with 8000 operations are also summarized. Finally, the document discusses security best practices for hypervisors and guest operating systems.