December 23, 2024 — 23:09

Author: silver  Category: virtualization  Comments: Off

Work in progress (dec-2024)

List of other virtualization platforms to replace (parts of) VMware Sphere.

Vendor / Product	HV	Notes
Proxmox Virtual Environment	kvm	➡ uses debian, linux, novnc etc ✖ outdated gui
OpenNebula	kvm	➡ touted as vcloud replacement ✔ gui, user/tenant self service
XCP-ng	xen	➡ XenServer fork (Vates offers Support)
Oracle Virtualization (VM Server and Linux KVM)	kvm	➡ Oracle Linux KVM is based on oVirt
RedHat OpenShift / OKD	kvm	➡ focuses on k8s ➡ has vm addon “OpenShift Virtualization”
Nutanix Cloud Platform	ahv
OpenStack	multiple	➡ complex to setup and maintain
Apache CloudStack	multiple	➡ OSS ✖ needs specific hardware
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure	multiple	➡ based on openstack

Not included: Hyper-V, public cloud

Storage

Some options for storage, to either replace vSAN or switch to NAS/SAN

CEPH

Cloudian

Starwind VSAN

Pure Storage

DDN/Trintri (NAS)

TrueNAS

NetApp (NAS)

HPE (NAS/SAN)

IBM (NAS/SAN)

Tooling and automation

API’s

<TODO: api’s, sdk’s pyvmomi, govmomi, govc>

Scripting

<TODO: alternatives for PowerCLI>

Logs

Alternatives for Aria Operations for Logs aka VRLI (centralized logging)

• Elastic (ELK stack)
• InfluxDB (TICK stack), Grafana, Prometheus
• Splunk

Management

<TODO: alternatives for Aria Operations>

Third party software

Backup

Veeam

• Proxmox VE
• XCP-NG

Commvault

• Proxmox VE

More information

Links

https://www.theregister.com/Tag/VMWare

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=vmware+alternative

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

From older research reports, to get an idea about market trends

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software

File and Object Storage Platforms