In the recently released “Market Guide for Server Virtualization” by Gartner, SmartX was again recognized as a representative vendor due to the rich enterprise features of its native hypervisor ELF, its capabilities of VMware replacement and migration, as well as its various customer cases in production environments.
Evaluations of Server Virtualization will Accelerate as Customers Seek VMware Alternatives
As the market guide points out, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and its subsequent actions have caused many customers to lose trust in VMware. Customers’ concerns about increases in total cost of ownership, quality of support, and changes to product roadmaps have also driven them to accelerate evaluations of server virtualization to replace the current VMware products. Gartner predicts that cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads.
Additionally, evaluating infrastructure for future enterprise workloads will include an expanded variety of options, including differing forms of server virtualization (containers, hardware-based, cloud infrastructure, microVMs, etc.). An increasing number of software, hardware, cloud, and IT services vendors are aiming to compete with incumbent virtualization providers, which will lead to increased choice but also to market fragmentation.
ELF: Production-Ready Virtualization, Rich Enterprise Features, Trusted by over 700 Customers
As a production-grade virtualization component developed by SmartX based on KVM, ELF virtualization offers comprehensive compute virtualization and full lifecycle management of virtual machines. Paired with SmartX’s distributed block storage, ZBS, it delivers exceptional performance optimization, making it a viable alternative to VMware virtualization in production environments.
By July 2024, SmartX has assisted nearly 700 enterprises across industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, deploying over 8,000 ELF virtualization-based hyper-converged nodes in production environments and running approximately 100,000 virtual machines. These deployments support core production, databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc.), big data platforms, AI, disaster recovery, cloud-native transformations, and more. Over 10% of users have been using ELF virtualization for over three years, proving its production-grade stability and reliability.
VMware Migration: Agentless, Simple, and Efficient
SmartX offers a free cross-platform migration tool, the SMTX Migration Tool, to help users easily migrate virtual machines from VMware virtualization platforms to SmartX clusters based on ELF virtualization. The entire migration process is straightforward and efficient, ensuring reliability and compatibility while minimizing business impact. Many industry users have already used the SMTX Migration Tool for large-scale virtual machine migrations, successfully replacing their VMware virtualization platforms.
VMware Upgrade and Replacement: One-Stop Solution for Financial, Manufacturing, and Healthcare Users
SmartX has assisted leading users in the finance, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors in replacing and upgrading their vSphere, vSAN, and VMware hyper-converged infrastructures. This is achieved using SmartX’s hyper-converged solution (now evolving into SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform), which includes native ELF virtualization and proprietary distributed storage ZBS, additional data protection, networking and security, and management components.
For more information, please download the SmartX ECP Product Portfolio Brief and the SmartX Case Studies.