Vmware vSphere

Broadcom, following its acquisition of VMware, is now the official vendor behind VMware vSphere — one of the most widely adopted enterprise virtualization platforms.

XCP-ng

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Your seamless Hypervisor. XCP-ng: the user-friendly, high-performance virtualization solution, developed collaboratively for unrestricted features and open-source accessibility.

Hyper-V

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Microsoft Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtualization platform, or ‘hypervisor’, which enables administrators to make better use of their hardware by virtualizing multiple operating systems to run off the same physical server simultaneously.

Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)

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Business needs can change fast, so you need virtualization management built to perform. Citrix Hypervisor makes it easy to maintain environments, all while powering your most robust workloads and securing virtual infrastructure from advanced threats.

KVM

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KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

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