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Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors

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Overview IT infrastructure virtualization, and in particular server virtualization, has become a primary consideration for all IT managers and CIOs because of the tremendous financial benefits that it delivers through reduced server count, power savings, automated management of data center resources, and because it simplifies the delivery of high availability, disaster recovery and resource optimization in the data center. Virtualization is the buzz of the enterprise IT market, and the upcoming IPO of VMware, the industry's most successful virtualization solution vendor, is of great interest. Customers and analysts alike are wondering whether any competitive products can compete with the runaway success of VMware's ESX Server hypervisor and Virtual Infrastructure 3 product.

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Publisher	XenSource	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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