Top 10 VMware vSphere Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to VMware vSphere Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Red Hat OpenShift
By Red Hat
4.5/5
(303)
Product Description
Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for creating and deploying any application, quickly and easily, on virtually any infrastructure.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Red Hat OpenShift is:
Slower to reach roi
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization
Container Orchestration

Azure Virtual Machines
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(385)
Product Description
Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Azure Virtual Machines is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)
By Nutanix
4.6/5
(293)
Product Description
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) combines feature-rich software-defined storage with built-in virtualization in a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution that can run any application at any scale.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization
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Scale Computing Platform
By Scale Computing
4.7/5
(238)
Product Description
Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications now running on Scale Computing Platform. Strategic partners include market leaders such as Google, Intel, APC Schneider, Lenovo, NEC, BCDVideo, and others. Some of the largest organizations in the world trust SC//Platform to run critical infrastructure, such as Hilton Hotels, Steel Dynamics, Farm Bureau Insurance, McDonald’s, Sumitomo Corporation, Delhaize, Holiday Inn, Air Liquide, and many others.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Scale Computing Platform is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

DigitalOcean
By DigitalOcean
4.6/5
(734)
Product Description
DigitalOcean provides the best tools to control your virtual server in the cloud. Learn how we deliver the most intuitive interface and features so you can start building your web infrastructure today.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, DigitalOcean is:
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
More usable
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Container Orchestration

Oracle VM
By Oracle
4.3/5
(72)
Product Description
Server Virtualization.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Oracle VM is:
Better at support
Easier to set up
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

XenServer
By Citrix
4.1/5
(48)
Product Description
XenServer is a leading virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures. Consolidation and containment of workloads on Citrix Hypervisor enables organizations of any vertical or size to transform their business IT compute infrastructures.
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, XenServer is:
Slower to reach roi
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

Proxmox VE
By Proxmox
4.6/5
(33)
Product Description
Proxmox VE is a complete virtualization management solution for servers.
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Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
By Red Hat
4.6/5
(936)
Product Description
Open source platform for mission-critical computing
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Reviewers say compared to VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with VMware vSphere:
Server Virtualization

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