The hypervisor with the largest market share, VMware ESXi, also has the broadest-reaching hypervisor management software. This makes for an attractive — though complex — offering. The training and certification necessary to run this environment requires a large investment of cash and talent, which makes businesses reluctant to change vendors.

Even so, more customers have tried multiple hypervisors and, accordingly, multiple product ecosystems. The reason companies use multiple hypervisors is partially a result of their increased use of cloud computing. Cloud orchestration stacks supersede the proprietary or evolved ecosystems associated with closed source products in favor of an open source offering, such as KVM.

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