VMware: the Cornerstone of every nutritious Private Cloud Infrastructure
Yet another blog post about VMware, is it still even relevant to talk about the buzz that is going on the market? Yes, because the shockwave hasn’t even been initiated yet, it is just still rumbling.
How did it come so far? Let me boil it down to a couple of simple phases:
- Productize very effectively a technology which found its roots in the 1960’s
- Make it a commercial success
- Wait until the industry moves higher up the stack with for example containerization
- Don’t broadcast too much that containerization is not a replacement for virtualization
- Raise prices since it’s a core proprietary component of modern data center stacks
- Observe what happens (as of today)
The scenario the industry is currently in with VMware can remind you of a XKCD comic which floats around for years and is most of the time used when an open source project is cornered due to a critical vulnerability or lack of project maintenance and ownership, when everybody realizes: “This component is everywhere, how could this have happened?”.
Well, news for you, in theory, with open source tools, everybody can fix the problem with enough will power and knowledgeable resources made available, but with proprietary products you simply can’t. It’s either commercial armwrestling and/or execute complex migration of foundational layers to open source alternatives that are included in products which are designed with the capability to swiftly detach yourself easily from the offering.

Alternative to VMware?
SUE delivers a complete feature parity alternative to the VMware product suite, without the suffocating commercial lock-in, based on our open source virtualization technology stack called Enterprise Cloud Stack, which is an Cloud Stack opensource based distribution supported by SUE, outlined in Table 1. SUE actively contributes to this open source project via the feature to flexibly inject custom resources in Kubernetes clusters which can be deployed and managed with Cloud Stack.
ECSS as a product delivers an enterprise grade supported installation and management pane which businesses require to run their crucial workload with.
VMware | Enterprise CloudStack |
---|---|
ESX | KVM |
vCenter | ECSS Administration Portal |
vSphere | ECSS VM Portal |
vApp | ECSS Service Offerings |
Virtual Datacenter | ECSS Clusters & Projects |
DRS | ECSS DRS |
Storage DRS | ECSS DRS |
vMotion | ECSS Live Migration |
vRealize | Multistax (SaaS) API & Portal |
Tanzu | Multistax (SaaS) API & Portal |
Table 1. Feature parity table
On top of that the value of ECSS is seamless integration with our application delivery platform called Multistax and having a supported installation and management layer for Cloud Stack.
Why should I go for ECSS? Because SUE has a large support organization of open source engineers which can maintain and run the open source technology stack as a managed service and/or support contract without the risk of building on top of rebellious but crucial vendors, effectively de-risking your business workloads. Due to the significant price increases happening for contract(s) (extensions) the costs of a migration clearly outweigh the benefits regarding de-risking, (service) supplier flexibility in the long term including a vibrant active open source community innovating Cloud Stack.
With ECSS you can very granularly migrate to Cloud Stack since:
Conclusion
Build on open source technology and products, utilize commercial support from professional support organizations to navigate freely and with confidence in the already so complex IT multiverse.
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