Leaving VMware?
Compared to Proxmox, Nutanix, and Hyper-V, Platform9 Managed OpenStack offers a modern, enterprise-ready, and cost-effective alternative to VMware.
With over a decade of experience running production workloads on 30,000+ nodes, Platform9 simplifies OpenStack for the enterprise, delivering enterprise features such as high availability, VM live migration, identity management and federation, quota management, backup and DR, and many more security and storage options.
Platform9 offers two alternatives to VMware
Think OpenStack is hard, complex, and unreliable, reserved only for Linux ninjas? Think again – Platform9 OpenStack transforms that myth into manageable, streamlined simplicity!
OpenStack and its trusted hypervisor, KVM, are open-source powerhouses. Discover how we have made OpenStack modern, open, super easy to use, and 50% more cost-effective than VMware and other legacy vendors.
Features:
- Windows-like point and click UI
- Full-featured VMware replacement
- Built-in storage, networking, and backup
Learn more about Platform9 Managed OpenStack.
KubeVirt lets you migrate and run your existing VMware VMs and also run containers on a Kubernetes platform. You can save a lot of infrastructure costs by using the same host, network, and storage for both VMs and containers.
We have made KubeVirt robust, scalable, and enterprise ready. And it is super easy to use with a modern UI that VMware admins would find very intuitive and familiar.
Features:
- VM HA, Live Migration
- DPDK, SRIOV, and OVS
- Unified UI for containers and VMs
Learn more about Platform9 Managed KubeVirt.
Common capabilities of OpenStack and KubeVirt
- Fully managed remote upgrades, monitoring, and security patching
- Proactive troubleshooting and guaranteed SLAs
- SaaS management plane
One Platform9 license for both OpenStack and KubeVirt.
0-60 with OpenStack: A self-paced lab
This 8-session video series will help you understand how easy it is to get up & running with Platform9 OpenStack. This is designed for VMware administrators who are considering KVM/OpenStack as an alternative hypervisor.