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There is also Rancher Harvester (https://harvesterhci.io/ https://harvesterhci.io/) which I think is a breadth of fresh air compared to VMware and OpenStack and
by mitjam 3y ago
There is also Rancher Harvester (https://harvesterhci.io/ https://harvesterhci.io/) which I think is a breadth of fresh air compared to VMware and OpenStack and then there is the Windows Server based Azure Stack HCI, too. In my experience, VMware‘s biggest moat is the vast support from software vendors. It basically is the default supported platform for almost every business application. This comes with well known best practices, many experienced admins, out of the box solutions from hardware vendors and highly standardized managed services. Most apps leave VMware for the cloud or Kubernetes but not another on-prem VM platform.
- hhh 3y agoHarvester has been great for me, except when I wanted to start using a real SAN with it. It's KubeVirt under the hood if I recall correctly, which is also a great project to check out.
- nolist_policy 3y agoOr go vendor independent with pacemaker + drbd + libvirt. For that stack you can get support from SUSE, Redhat and Linbit and maybe even Ubuntu. Or just go with Debian if you don't need support.