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Proxmox Virtual Environment	kvm	uses debian, linux, novnc etc outdated gui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