This research was conducted to provide High Availability to web servers of the National University of Trujillo through the use of virtualization, and to do a comparison was made between three of the leading data center virtualization platforms according to THE GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT, the consultant and most prestigious research of information technologies; selecting the most appropriate to the requirements to ensure the continuity of services; This selection was made taking into account the IEEE 830 standard. At present there is no specific methodology to develop this type of research, however we chose to use the Cisco Lifecycle Services methodology, built according to the standards of Library Information Technology Infrastructure (ITIL); While Lifecycle Services is used to help install and operate successfully technologies cisco and optimize their performance throughout the lifecycle of...