VMware: Leading virtualization solution provider in the market with wide range of products. If you are a beginner in Server Virtualization then this will be the right choice to start off with. Starting from Workstation to vCenter, vSphere Hypervisor, etc you will find many products with easy management and easy Interface.
- vSphere Hypervisor is a free of cost Solution and holds basic needs of small business from sharing pre installed OS machines to Hardware. It holds different components in the package for Server as well as for client and management.
- Esxi: It is server virtualization Solution and in other way it is bare metal installation solution. You can install it on your Server machine like an OS and then you will be provided with very basic interface that helps you to manage very basic settings. Like IP address, Password, etc.
- Vsphere Client: It is a Software that you can install on OS and then can be used to manage the server machines, hardware and create new machines. you can manage the way you want to share the resources to different virtual machines on Server.
Using vSphere Cleint you can create Different users and can assign them different privilege levels and authorization to access the virtual machines. User will be able to see only those machine(s) to which he is assigned the authority.
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Citrix XenServer: This is another leader in the industry you can use.
Same as that of Vmware it holds the same working conditions and environment. Advantage you will get with Zen is it's Interface and functioning that looks more comfortable and easy to operate.
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Microsoft: Microsoft came up with the only non-Linux hypervisor, Hyper-V, to compete in a tight server virtualization market that VMware currently dominates.
But in Hyper-V, it is bit different from Vmware and Citrix as it comes along with Server 2012 and can be managed from the system on which it is installed.
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