Published: 25 April 2014
ID: G00262402
Analyst(s): Alan Waite
This document summarizes Gartner's in-depth assessments of the four leading x86 server virtualization platforms — Oracle VM, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. It compares strengths and weaknesses and notes when to deploy and not deploy each hypervisor.
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