Virtualization Technology Virtualization technology has dramatically changed the

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Virtualization Technology

Virtualization technology has dramatically changed the landscape of how servers are designed, secured, and administered. The hypervisor market has become commoditized due to core feature overlap among most hypervisor vendors. While there are many hypervisor options in the market today–the Big 3 are VMware (ESXi), Microsoft (Hyper-V), and Citrix (XenServer).

On the basis of your understanding of Virtualization technology , create a report in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following:

Compare and contrast the Big 3 hypervisor options available in the market on the basis of factors such as:

Features

Licensing costs

Security

Support

Make a recommendation to Zeus Books on which hypervisor they should use to create a high availability web server environment.

Explanation / Answer

Dear Student,

Hypervisor and virtualization are key terms in cloud computing. As it mentioned, VMWare, Citrix are top most vendors available in the market and to me Oracle VMServer is better choice than Microsoft.

As far the licencing cost and features are concered, there will not be much differences. Where in web server environment, below point matters:-

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