Server Virtualization
Offers production-grade virtualization with various deployment modes for building resource pools and upgrading architectures.
Server Virtualization
Benefits
Overview
Gartner Report
Native ELF
Replace VMware
Ecosystem
VCCI
AI Infra
FAQ
Resources
Benefits
Production-Ready. Performance and stability has been verified in the production environments across finance, medical, and manufacturing industries.
High Performance. End-to-end optimization provides industry-leading performance, tested in performance-sensitive scenarios such as databases.
VMware Replacement. ELF offers production-grade features, adapted to domestic ecosystem, replacing vSphere and simplifying management.
Elastic and Agile. Users can invest on-demand based on business requirements and launch quickly, starting with just three nodes.
Overview

SmartX server virtualization focuses on native ELF, providing production-grade capabilities for VMware replacement and domestic substitution.

The hyper-converged architecture supports VMware vSphere for smooth transitions.

The storage-compute separation architecture supports Hyper-V and other platforms for flexible, stable, high-performance storage pools.

Deployment
Native Virtualization ELF
VMware vSphere
Other Virtualization
Storage-compute separation
Distributed Storage
SmartX Named a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for Server Virtualization for the Third Year

SmartX has been selected for three consecutive years (2023-2025) in Gartner's "Global Server Virtualization Market Guide" due to its production-grade virtualization products.

Native Virtualization ELF: KVM-Based, Continuous Innovation
ELF is a virtualization product by SmartX based on KVM. It offers management capabilities, supports multi-architecture processors, enables VMware replacement, and provides high-performance computing for traditional and modern applications.
SmartX engages with the KVM open-source community, solving issues and submitting 85 patches to enhance virtualization technology.
Product
SMTX ELF
Virtualization with verified stability and reliability in production environments.
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Replace VMware vSphere
ELF offers enterprise users advanced virtualization features like vSphere Enterprise Plus, enhancing high-performance computing and simplifying virtual machine management.
Blog
Replacing VMware vSphere with SmartX ELF: Higher Availability with Optimized Performance
Discover comparison details.
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Solution
VMware Alternative
Flexibly replace VMware virtualization and upgrade full-stack products.
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Broader Ecosystem
SmartX's native virtualization ELF is compatible with domestic servers, operating systems, and 10-gigabit network cards, meeting the hardware requirements in the context of trusted innovation; it supports direct access to domestic GPUs, ensuring stable operation of high-performance computing, large models, and other cutting-edge applications under the trusted innovation architecture; it is compatible with domestic encryption technologies to meet data security and compliance requirements.
Building VM-Container Converged Infrastructure
SmartX offers a VM-container converged infrastructure, combining virtualization and container resources for integrated deployment and management across various environments.
Solution
VM-Container Converged Infrastructure
Integrate virtualization and container resources, merging deployment and management to meet diverse business needs.
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Building AI Infrastructure
SmartX native virtualization ELF offers complete GPU support and provides high-performance storage resource pools for GPU applications in various virtualization environments, assisting enterprises in achieving production-level use of high-performance applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition processing, and VDI (like 3D modeling and image rendering).
Blog
GPU Passthrough & vGPU: Using GPU Application in Virtualization
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Solution
AI Infrastructure
A flexible enterprise AI solution that helps businesses implement AI applications more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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FAQ

Hyper-convergence and server virtualization are two distinct concepts, but they have both differences and connections. Implementing server virtualization based on hyper-convergence offers more advantages in terms of performance, operations, and costs compared to traditional solutions.

Resources
Blog
Why Enterprises Choose SmartX ELF Virtualization as a VMware Alternative
Five customer stories.
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The Ultimate Guide to Cope with VMware’s Simplified Portfolio and Licensing Model
Different coping strategies for users of different VMware solutions.
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