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The article mentions several VMware alternatives: - RedHat OpenShift (k8s) - Scale Computing HC3 - Wind River Cloud - public cloud providers Any othe

• riddley 1y ago
  Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..
• sherr 1y ago
  Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.
  • stephen_g 1y ago
    When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.
    • walterbell 1y ago
      > rock-solid Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common
• cl0ckt0wer 1y ago
  If you're looking at small self hosting then Proxmox.
  • travisgriggs 1y ago
    That’s where my IT department said they’re headed the other day.
• nick__m 1y ago
  in no particular order: - HPE morpheus VM Essential - Apache Cloudstack - Platform9 ...
  • jhickok 1y ago
    Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?
• noselasd 1y ago
  Proxmox is an amazing alternative