Three Solutions for VMware to ZStack

Gartner’s Global Server Virtualization Market Guide states that “the server virtualization market is facing the most significant disruptive change in over a decade.”

This assessment is based on Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, which altered the original product sales model—discontinuing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription-based sales, increasing enterprise operational expenditure (OPEX). Additionally, the original standalone products have been restructured into four subscription packages, leading to increased costs for users.

Users across more than ten industries, including finance, healthcare, education, manufacturing, transportation, and media in multiple countries and regions, are seeking new products to replace VMware.

Gartner predicts that by 2028, cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads.

For enterprises aiming to maintain business continuity, reduce costs, and mitigate risks, ZStack emerges as a highly attractive option. This article introduces three solutions for replacing VMware with ZStack.

Three Solutions for Replacing VMware with ZStack

ZStack offers three solutions—”virtualization, cloud platform, and hyper-converged infrastructure”—to replace VMware, with over 600 successful replacement cases.

ZStack ZSphere Virtualization Platform as a VMware Replacement

ZSphere covers more than 95% of VMware’s virtual machine lifecycle management functions while introducing unique features to further enhance operational efficiency.

It has the following key features:

Compatibility and Reuse:Broad compatibility with mainstream servers, enabling unified clusters across different CPU generations and models, supporting multi-brand reuse, and compatible with SAN storage.

One-Click Upgrade:Supports online, cross-version hot upgrades and grayscale upgrades to ensure business reliability.

Unified Management:Manages virtual machines and bare metal servers uniformly, supports batch creation of virtual machines and management of all resources via a UI interface without requiring out-of-band management.

High Performance:Supports separated or converged storage and compute deployment, integrates distributed storage via Vhost+RDMA technology, achieving 1 million IOPS for 4K random reads and over 840,000 IOPS for writes.

ZStack Cloud Platform as a VMware Replacement

For users utilizing VMware vSphere+vSAN+network, operations, containers, and other components, the ZStack Cloud replacement route is ideal.

ZStack Cloud not only replaces VMware virtualization but also provides cloud platform capabilities. It is suitable for enterprise critical business, databases, development/testing, backup/disaster recovery, artificial intelligence, big data, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud-native applications, and high-performance computing (HPC).

It has the following key features:

Functional Expansion:Bare metal, containers, RDS, object storage.

Granular Operations:Intelligent analysis, metering and billing, monitoring dashboards.

Cloud Management:Multi-tenancy, self-service, process approvals.

Wide Applications:Suitable for private cloud and hybrid cloud.

ZStack Cube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure as a VMware Replacement

For some small and medium-sized enterprises using vSphere+vSAN or vSphere+vSAN+NSX+Aria, ZStack Cube hyper-converged infrastructure provides a suitable replacement.

ZStack Cube hyper-converged infrastructure enables rapid delivery for virtualization replacement and upgrades. It is suitable for enterprise critical business, databases, development/testing, backup/disaster recovery, simulation/training, branch/edge applications, and secure resource pools.

It has the following key features:

Fast and Flexible:Ready-to-use cloud solution with rapid delivery; diverse configuration options and elastic scalability.

Comprehensive and Robust:Software-defined compute, storage, and networking; includes all IaaS cloud functionalities.

Stable and Reliable:Features EC, replicas, fault domains, extended clusters, continuous data protection, and multiple layers of hardware and software high availability.

High Performance:Deep optimization of compute and storage integration to ensure efficient resource performance.

Conclusion

VMware’s new sales model has created an urgent need for enterprises to find cost-effective and reliable replacement solutions. ZStack provides robust solutions for enterprises looking to migrate their virtualization workloads, ensuring stable operations and reduced risks. With advanced migration tools, proven success cases, and professional support, ZStack helps enterprises seamlessly transition from VMware to a modern, scalable, and cost-effective virtualization platform.

Click the link to learn more about ZStack’s VMware replacement solutions: https://www.zstack-cloud.com/solution/scenario/vmwaretozstack/