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VMware, the market leader in hypervisor solutions, is encountering real competition from a number of vendors who built their products around the Xen hypervisor, as well as from Microsoft with its renewed virtualization push and Hyper-V hypervisor. This note takes a look at the hypervisor contenders and will provide the following:
- A review of what a hypervisor is, how it works, and what its key benefits are.
- A discussion of alternative points of view on whether hypervisors will become a commodity.
- A look at some of the technical differences between various hypervisors.
Various hypervisors typically employ different architectures in order to provide similar features and functions. In the end, it is the management of these advanced features and functions that will differentiate one vendor's approach from another.
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