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VM Server Alternatives

4.4(70 Ratings)
Server Virtualization (Transitioning to Server...

Considering alternatives to VM Server? See what this market VM Server users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. vSphere

By Broadcom (VMware)

4.3
(1828 Ratings)
vSphere is essential in how we administer our VMWare virtual environment. It's a centralized tool that allows administrators full control over snapshots, backups, VM administration and migration. Features are intuitive and robust with options for monitoring, configuring, setting permissions, allocating datastores and networks, snapshots and updates. Features a status bar at the bottom to see what active tasks that are queued up. When you perform a task, like deleting a snapshot, you can see its progress. Integrating vSphere locally with SaaS Cloud assets is seamless and not too difficult to configure. Overall, it's an essential companion when managing multiple ESXi hosts and virtual workloads. Read all insights and reviews for vSphere

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2. Hyper-V

By Microsoft

4.4
(695 Ratings)
Hyper-V is a robust tool which offers very good stability. Since it's integrated into Windows like an app, it feels native and super fast. The type-1 architecture ensures that guest machines run with excellent memory management. The VHDX storage resilience and the ease of creating quick checkpoints are really a great advantage of Hyper-V/ However the experience is dragged down by a dated user interface and a frustratingly complex virtual networking setup that often requires manual troubleshooting when switching between Wi-fi and ethernet.Read all insights and reviews for Hyper-V
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3. Nutanix Cloud Platform

By Nutanix

4.5
(218 Ratings)
For quite some time, it has been in the leader segment of HCI and yet again in the Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure Category. The reason why its adoption gradually increased is because it came out as a single stack and redefined the HCI category with unified management, storage and compute in a single pane. This gives the customer the flexibility to choose both hybrid and all-flash storage in a single cluster. However, to adopt it an organization needs to invest in training and enablement of the resources. Read all insights and reviews for Nutanix Cloud Platform
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4. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By SUSE

4.6
(174 Ratings)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a robust server solution for cloud environments used in data centers. Deploying this solution is straight forward and then you can customize it for your needs. This solution has years of development behind it, so you can rest assured that the security is at the highest level.Read all insights and reviews for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux

By IBM (Red Hat)

4.6
(136 Ratings)
Our experience with RHEL has been consistently excellent.The platform is extremely stable, secure and well supported making it suitable for critical workloads. It integrates well across on-premises and virtualized environments. While the subscription costs are higher than community alternativesm the enterprise support and stability justifies the investment.Read all insights and reviews for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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6. XenServer

By Citrix

4.1
(125 Ratings)
It was a very poor decision to choose this product which ended up in wasting money and hardware still sitting in our data center that can't be used since its already end of life and end of support. They tried their best to implement it in our environment but because of the complexity it never worked. Not even a small portion of those services ever worked.Read all insights and reviews for XenServer
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7. Red Hat Virtualization

By IBM (Red Hat)

4.3
(109 Ratings)
Red Hat Virtualization is a great. A cost-effective way to get your servers into a virtual environment. Some love it, some hate it, but if you're familiar with the Linux environment, this may be the answer. Read all insights and reviews for Red Hat Virtualization
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8. ZStack Cloud

By ZStack

5
(26 Ratings)
With the continuous development of the company's business,the company adopts the hybrid cloud platform to carry the unified data platform.By calling the API interface of ZStack,the private cloud is gathered into the cloud management platform,and the public cloud and private cloud are managed in a unified way,so that data can guide operation and drive business innovation.Read all insights and reviews for ZStack Cloud
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Top Alternatives to VM Server

  • vSphere
  • Hyper-V
  • Nutanix Cloud Platform
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • XenServer
  • Red Hat Virtualization
  • ZStack Cloud

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