Big Three

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 2-3 page 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.

Cite sources and references used in APA format.