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Lab Tests Reveal Boot Storm Performance of 1,000 VMs in 71 Seconds

Ann Arbor, Michigan — October 15, 2024 — VergeIO, a leader in ultraconverged infrastructure solutions, today announced test results by StorageReview indicating its software-defined infrastructure delivers high performance without costly add-ons while simplifying virtualization, making it a compelling alternative for organizations seeking relief from VMware’s expensive licensing model.

According to StorageReview’s findings, VergeIO’s ultraconverged infrastructure, VergeOS, stands out as a serious alternative to VMware for businesses of all sizes. The review highlighted its simpler licensing model, built-in disaster recovery and high performance on modern hardware, positioning VergeIO as a highly efficient option for enterprises looking to move away from VMware.

“Our evaluation of Verge.io revealed a robust, high-performance virtualization platform that challenges the status quo set by VMware, said Brian Beeler, StorageReview’s CEO. “It provides a streamlined, cost-effective alternative that delivers the agility, simplicity, and scalability today’s organizations need, to drive their IT environments forward, especially at the edge where technical resources and budgets are limited.”

StorageReview conducted testing using a cutting-edge hardware configuration at its Cincinnati lab, leveraging AMD EPYC processors, high-performance Solidigm SSDs and liquid-cooled nodes from Giga Computing. Results underscored VergeIO’s ability to efficiently handle demanding workloads, achieving impressive performance metrics in sequential and random I/O operations. VergeIO delivered up to 6.9GB/s in write operations, providing a solid foundation for enterprise virtualization and data center environments.

During StorageReview’s test drive, VergeIO was able to handle a massive boot storm of 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) within just 71 seconds. This extreme scenario, where all 1,000 VMs booted simultaneously, showcased VergeIO’s robust storage IO infrastructure, which is designed to handle even the most demanding virtualization environments. The test used a mix of TLC and QLC SSDs, demonstrating that VergeIO can deliver fast, reliable performance while maintaining cost efficiency.

Additional highlights from StorageReview’s review include:

  • VM migration capabilities, which allow enterprises to transition seamlessly from VMware environments to VergeOS.
  • Built-in tools that enable efficient syncing and updating of VMs, reducing downtime, and ensuring smooth transitions to the VergeOS platform.
  • Disaster recovery capabilities and advanced security features, such as WireGuard integration for secure remote access, that further enhance the platform’s value proposition for enterprises looking to protect their data and maintain high availability.
  • A single-code-based platform, which integrates virtualization, storage and networking, offering a simpler, more cost-effective solution for enterprises looking to streamline their IT infrastructure.
  • Per-node licensing model, which was noted for its transparency and affordability over the complex and costly licensing models of VMware, Nutanix and Windows Server.
  • VergeIO’s storage tiering capability that assigns data to different storage media based on performance and recovery needs, enables organizations to maximize performance and cost efficiency.

“Having an independent storage authority like StorageReview evaluate your platform thoroughly and confirm what you’ve been saying to the world – that VergeOS is a better and more cost-effective alternative to VMware – is particularly gratifying,” said Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO. “With our platform’s ability to reduce costs, streamline IT operations, simplify compliance, protect from ransomware, simplify moving workloads, and provide scalability using only the resources you need, VergeIO is more than a VMware alternative. It is a powerful data operating system software that can replace disparate vendors and orchestration challenges for organizations of all sizes.”

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Those interested in learning more about the results of StorageReview’s findings can join representatives of VergeIO and StorageReview on a special webinar on Wednesday, October 23rd, at 1:00 pm ET: https://www.verge.io/storagereview-live-lab-analysis-of-vergeio/

About VergeIO

VergeIO is the future of virtualization. The VergeOS software provides a highly integrated single-code-base data center operating system that simplifies IT infrastructure by combining virtualization, storage, and networking into a single unified platform. VergeIO enables enterprises to reduce costs, streamline operations, and scale their IT environments effortlessly.

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When considering an alternative to VMware, it’s essential to elevate your infrastructure rather than simply seeking cost savings. Elevating your infrastructure means improving data protection, resiliency, and availability—critical elements that should define your next virtualization platform. In this post, we’ll explore the key features you should demand in a modern virtualization platform, and how VergeIO delivers on those expectations.

How to Elevate Your Infrastructure with Better Data Resilience

Snapshot Technology

In today’s IT environments, preparing for potential data loss, corruption, or accidental deletions is crucial. One of the most vital features in any virtualization platform is advanced snapshot technology. Traditional snapshots are often plagued by performance bottlenecks and limited retention, resulting in large gaps in protection. Many organizations are forced to take only one snapshot per day to feed their backup software, which is no longer enough.

To elevate your infrastructure, your VMware alternative should provide frequent, independent snapshots that don’t rely on redirect-on-write techniques. These snapshots should maintain system performance while allowing multiple snapshots throughout the day. This enhances Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), ensuring fast recovery when needed.

Workload Isolation

Secure workload isolation is key to protecting mission-critical workloads. Multi-tenancy ensures individual workloads are isolated for better performance and enhanced security. With an elevated infrastructure, you can place mission-critical applications in their own tenants, isolating them from less critical workloads. If ransomware attacks a user workload, it won’t spread to other tenants.

Multi-tenancy also streamlines disaster recovery (DR). By encapsulating consistent states of networking, storage, and virtual machines, the failover process becomes simpler and more reliable, improving your DR capabilities. Frequent testing becomes easier, encouraging proactive planning.

Key considerations include:

  • Robust isolation mechanisms to protect workloads.
  • Custom backup policies for each workload.
  • Encapsulated DR processes for easy recovery.

Protection from Hardware Failures

Look for a VMware alternative that can elevate your infrastructure by withstanding multiple simultaneous hardware failures. While most platforms can handle a single failure, resilient virtualization solutions keep workloads running even during multiple failures.

Look for virtualization platforms that offer self-healing capabilities to automatically reroute workloads to available hardware, ensuring minimal downtime. Solutions that provide affordable redundancy can enable high availability without requiring excessive resources.

Disaster Recovery

A comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plan is key to elevating your infrastructure. While backup solutions play a crucial role, they must be paired with automated disaster recovery capabilities. DR should be fully integrated into the platform, with failover and failback processes automated to ensure that workloads remain available during outages. Frequent DR testing without disrupting production is also essential for preparing your infrastructure for worst-case scenarios.

Importance of a Separate Backup Process for Long-Term Retention

While advanced snapshots and disaster recovery are critical, they cannot replace the need for a separate backup process to ensure compliance with the 3-2-1 backup rule. This rule mandates that organizations maintain three copies of their data: two on different storage media and one offsite.

An effective VMware alternative should integrate seamlessly with separate backup solutions that can provide long-term retention and offsite storage. This process ensures compliance, protects against ransomware, and meets legal or regulatory data retention requirements. Moreover, having a distinct backup solution enables organizations to recover data from further back in time, providing more flexibility and protection in the event of an unexpected disaster or human error.

Backup considerations include:

  • Immutable backups that cannot be modified or deleted, providing extra protection against ransomware.
  • Offsite storage for compliance with the 3-2-1 rule.
  • Long-term retention capabilities that meet regulatory and legal requirements.

VergeIO: Elevate Your Infrastructure

Among the many VMware alternatives, VergeIO stands out by offering more than just an alternative—it elevates your infrastructure, particularly in the realm of data protection and resiliency.

Elevate Your Infrastructure with Advanced IOclone Technology

VergeOS’s IOclone technology takes data protection to the next level. Unlike traditional snapshots that slow down performance and use excessive storage, IOclone creates fully independent snapshots of virtual machines, instances, or virtual data centers. Snapshots are optimized with inline deduplication, maximizing storage efficiency while maintaining high performance.

Elevate Your Infrastructure

These independent snapshots mean that even if the original data is deleted, the snapshot remains intact. This capability allows IT teams to take frequent snapshots and reduce their RPO and RTO, enabling granular recovery of full virtual data centers, individual VMs, or even specific files. Experience using snapshots for granular recovery in our hands-on lab.

Elevate Your Infrastructure with Virtual Data Centers

VergeOS provides secure multi-tenancy but takes it a step further by delivering virtual data centers for each tenant. These virtual data centers encapsulate networking, storage, and compute resources into consolidated objects, allowing complete environments to be recovered quickly during outages.

This encapsulation minimizes recovery delays, offering a more robust approach to disaster recovery by ensuring all configuration files are in sync and workloads are restored seamlessly. See how to use virtual data centers right now in our hands-on lab.

Elevate Your Infrastructure by Protecting it from Hardware Failures

VergeOS’ self-healing architecture detects failures in real-time, rerouting workloads automatically to minimize downtime. VergeOS provides affordable redundancy, ensuring high availability without the need for resource duplication.

Elevate Your Infrastructure

For greater protection, VergeOS includes ioGuardian, an integrated capability which offers inline recovery in case of catastrophic multiple simultaneous hardware failures. ioGuardian delivers missing data segments to virtual machines in real-time, enabling VMs to remain operational and saving you from resorting to your backup software.

Elevate Your Infrastructure by Exceeding the 3-2-1 Rule

While VergeOS provides robust snapshot technology and integrated disaster recovery, working with Storware ensures complete compliance with the 3-2-1 backup rule. Storware offers an advanced backup solution that integrates seamlessly with VergeOS’s snapshot capabilities, allowing organizations to meet long-term retention and offsite storage requirements.

Storware’s incremental forever backups ensure that only changed data is backed up after the initial full backup, minimizing storage use while still offering comprehensive protection. Storware also supports immutable backups, which are critical for protecting against ransomware and accidental deletions.

Conclusion: VergeIO is the Future of Virtualization

Don’t just settle for a VMware alternative that maintains the status quo. Elevate your infrastructure with VergeIO, a solution that improves snapshot technology, workload isolation, resiliency against failures, and integrated disaster recovery.

Next Steps

  • Explore more about VergeIO’s approach to data protection through our on-demand webinar “Protecting VergeOS.”
  • Experience VergeOS first-hand by signing up for our hands-on lab here.
  • Download our solution brief for an in-depth look at how VergeIO and Storware provide complete data protection.

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The shared responsibility of data protection requires collaboration between infrastructure software and backup software. Both systems must work together to ensure data resiliency, protection, and recovery. Relying solely on one or the other can leave gaps, creating vulnerabilities that put critical data and operations at risk.

Learn why data protection requires shared responsibility.

In this shared responsibility model, infrastructure software (including hypervisors, storage, and networking) handles hardware failures and maintains uptime. Meanwhile, backup software safeguards against user errors and cyberattacks and ensures long-term data retention. This balanced approach ensures complete protection across all potential points of failure.

The Complexity of Modern IT Environments

Data centers today are more intricate than ever before. Enterprises rely on a combination of hypervisors, bare-metal systems, containers, and cloud services across various platforms and environments. The traditional single-backup-system approach is no longer sufficient. Businesses must implement solutions that address the unique challenges of each infrastructure component.

Infrastructure software, which manages virtual machines, networking, and storage, should provide data resilience, ensuring that workloads continue running despite multiple simultaneous hardware failures. Meanwhile, backup software protects data from soft errors—such as accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, or software bugs—and provides long-term data retention and compliance.

The shared responsibility model creates a structured way for infrastructure and backup systems to complement each other, ensuring no gaps in data protection.

On Thursday, October 3rd, at 11:00 AM ET, we will explore the shared responsibility model in greater depth and demonstrate how its two components can work together to deliver unprecedented levels of resilience, protection, and recovery.

Register here to secure your spot!

VergeOS and Storware: A Shared Responsibility for Data Protection

The collaboration between infrastructure and backup solutions is at the heart of the shared responsibility model. The integration of VergeOS and Storware provides an excellent example of an end-to-end solution for data resilience, protection, and recovery.

VergeOS: The Role of Infrastructure in Data Resiliency

VergeOS is more than just a VMware alternative. It’s an ultraconverged infrastructure consolidating the hypervisor, storage, and networking into a single piece of software. In addition to delivering a more efficient infrastructure software solution, this approach allows VergeOS to provide superior protection against hardware failures, ensuring superior uptime and resiliency.

One of VergeOS’s standout features is its IOclone technology, which creates fully independent snapshots of selected objects, such as virtual data centers, instances, or virtual machines. Unlike traditional snapshots that rely on the redirect-on-write method, VergeOS’s IOclone ensures that snapshots are independent of the original object. If the original object is deleted, the snapshot remains intact and can be restored.

VergeOS also incorporates integrated deduplication, making snapshots highly efficient in terms of storage capacity consumption. This enables businesses to keep thousands of snapshots over long periods without any performance degradation.

In addition, VergeOS features ioGuardian, a real-time recovery solution that activates during multiple hardware failures. With inline recovery, ioGuardian provides missing data segments to virtual machines in real time, preventing downtime even during catastrophic failures. This ensures infrastructure resiliency, addressing gaps that often occur when infrastructure systems rely too heavily on backup systems for recovery.

Storware: The Role of Backup in Data Protection and Recovery

While VergeOS handles hardware-level protection and resiliency, Storware ensures data is safeguarded from user errors, accidental deletions, and ransomware attacks. Storware’s backup solution supports KVM-based hypervisors (including VergeOS), bare-metal systems, containers, and cloud environments such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Storware’s two-stage backup architecture offers scalability and flexibility in data protection. In the first stage, Storware collects data from multiple sources and stores it temporarily in Storware nodes. These nodes can scale to meet increasing capacity or performance demands.

In the second stage, the data is transferred to a final repository, which could include object storage, file systems (NFS or SMB), enterprise-grade storage (such as Dell EMC Data Domain or HPE StoreOnce), or even tape libraries for organizations that need offline data storage.

Storware’s support for incremental forever backups captures only changes after the initial backup, reducing backup times and network strain. Additionally, Storware performs data consolidation in the staging area, ensuring that recoveries are full-speed, even when multiple incremental backups are involved.

When integrated with VergeOS, Storware leverages Change Block Tracking (CBT) technology to optimize backup efficiency by minimizing the amount of data transferred over the network.

Why the Shared Responsibility Model is Crucial for Modern Businesses

The partnership between VergeOS and Storware highlights the power of the shared responsibility model. Together, they provide comprehensive protection across all failure points—whether hardware-related or human error.

Organizations relying solely on backup software for all data protection risk gaps in infrastructure resiliency. Conversely, relying only on infrastructure software without a dedicated backup strategy can make meeting compliance or data protection best practices demands challenging. The shared responsibility model ensures that both systems—infrastructure and backup—work together harmoniously.

With VergeOS managing uptime and resiliency during hardware failures and Storware protecting against soft errors and enabling long-term retention, businesses can be confident that their data is fully protected. This holistic approach is particularly crucial for organizations managing multi-tenant environments, hybrid cloud infrastructures, or complex virtualized systems, where any failure can lead to severe consequences.

Conclusion: Shared Responsibility Equals Stronger Protection

Modern IT environments are vital to an organization’s success and demand a comprehensive approach to data protection. By adopting the shared responsibility model, organizations can ensure that infrastructure and backup systems work together to provide seamless data resiliency, protection, and recovery.

The collaboration between VergeOS and Storware exemplifies this model in action. VergeOS protects infrastructure from hardware failures and ensures uptime, while Storware safeguards data against soft errors and provides long-term retention. Together, they offer a turnkey solution that helps businesses of all sizes protect their most valuable asset—their data.

Join Our Webinar: How to Protect VMware Alternatives with VergeIO and Storware
Interested in learning more about how infrastructure and backup software can work together to safeguard your data? Join us for a live webinar, “How to Protect VMware Alternatives with VergeIO and Storware,” where we’ll explore these concepts further and demonstrate how the two solutions integrate seamlessly.

  • Date: Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

  • Time: 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT

  • Duration: 30 minutes + Q&A
    Register here~ to secure your spot!

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Warsaw, Poland – September 24, 2024 – Storware, a European leader in enterprise data backup and recovery, renowned for its stability and seamless integration capabilities, has announced a strategic partnership with VergeIO, the leading provider of ultraconverged infrastructure. This collaboration addresses the growing market demand for turnkey solutions that deliver an integrated data center operating environment with end-to-end backup, disaster recovery, and robust protection against ransomware.

VergeIO, a pioneer in VMware alternatives, offers effortless solutions for deploying powerful platforms using existing hardware while enhancing data resiliency and performance. The VergeOS software is more than just a VMware alternative—it provides superior efficiency, leading to better performance, scalability, hardware resiliency, upfront cost savings, and significant long-term reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO). The flexible, hardware-agnostic approach simplifies project launches with minimal technical setup while maintaining high availability and workload scalability.

The collaboration between Storware and VergeIO strengthens data security, ensuring confidentiality and business continuity. This partnership offers significant benefits for businesses of all types and sizes, enabling them to build robust infrastructures for a wide range of environments, including secure research (HPC), hyperconverged data centers, and multi-tenant private clouds.

Key Benefits of the Partnership:

  • A unified solution for simplifying data center virtualization and infrastructure management.
  • Enables organizations to build or scale IT environments using end-to-end software rapidly, minimizing costs and deployment times.
  • Storware Backup and Recovery integrates seamlessly with VergeOS, offering a centralized console for managing backup tasks while supporting the creation of fully encapsulated virtual data centers.
  • The hardware-agnostic infrastructure supports evolving business demands and accelerates growth.
  • Significant reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) as environments scale.

“The Storware-VergeIO partnership is not just about collaboration; it’s about creating synergy between innovation and expertise to accelerate technological transformation,” said Jan Sobieszczanski, CEO of Storware. “We’re excited to offer a joint solution that combines VergeOS’ unique ultraconverged infrastructure with Storware’s powerful Backup and Recovery capabilities. Together, we’re ready to tackle emerging market challenges head-on.”

Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO, added, “Integrating Storware Backup and Recovery with VergeOS provides customers with confidence as they transition from VMware. The combined solution enhances cybersecurity with rapid backups, including incremental and differential backups, granular recovery options, and automated backup scheduling. This partnership makes virtualization and moving to fully functional, resilient virtual data centers a turnkey solution.”

About VergeIO

VergeIO is the future of virtualization and the leading VMware alternative. Unlike hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), VergeIO’s ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) collapses the traditional IT stack (compute, storage, and networking) into a single, integrated data center operating environment: VergeOS. This approach allows organizations to achieve greater workload density, improved data resiliency and simplified IT management using their existing hardware—resulting in lower costs and higher availability. VergeOS delivers better performance, scalability, hardware resiliency, and significant upfront and long-term cost savings.

For more information, visit www.verge.io.

About Storware

Storware is a European enterprise data backup and recovery solutions provider recognized for its stability and comprehensive platform integration. Storware secures data across virtual machines, containers, cloud environments, and applications, including Microsoft 365. It supports a variety of backup destinations, such as file systems and object storage, and acts as a proxy for enterprise backup providers. Established in 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, Storware continues expanding its reach through a robust global distribution and partner network.

Connect with Storware on Facebook, LinkedIn, or visit storware. eu for more information.

Media Contacts:

Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Manager, Storware
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Judy Smith
JPR Communications, representing VergeIO
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September 17, 2024 — Ann Arbor, Michigan — VergeIO, the leader in ultraconverged infrastructure, has partnered with TechAccelerator to deliver a suite of hands-on labs designed for IT professionals looking to migrate from VMware to VergeOS. These self-paced labs provide a comprehensive, interactive experience to help organizations transition smoothly to VergeOS, offering an invaluable learning opportunity without needing hardware.

The migration process is often a key concern for businesses exploring VMware alternatives. VergeIO’s hands-on labs are available 24/7 and can be completed in just 15 to 20 minutes. Each lab showcases VergeOS’ integrated virtualization, storage, and networking capabilities, giving participants a deep understanding of how VergeOS operates and how it can enhance their current processes.

David Hekimian, CEO of TechAccelerator, commented, “Our partnership with VergeIO is a game changer for IT professionals. These labs provide an immersive and practical experience, enabling users to get comfortable with VergeOS in a risk-free environment. This is essential for anyone considering a shift from VMware or looking to optimize their virtualization strategy.”

Become a VMware Migration Expert—No Hardware Required

The VMware Migration Lab provides IT professionals with a fully functional environment. It allows them to connect to a VMware infrastructure, migrate virtual machines into VergeOS, and boot them seamlessly. This lab guides participants through each step of the migration process, equipping them with the knowledge needed to execute their migrations confidently.

Enhance Data Protection with VergeOS

VergeOS is not just a VMware alternative—it offers superior efficiency, performance, and data resiliency. In the Snapshot Lab, participants can explore VergeOS’ ioClone-powered snapshot technology, learning to create and protect VMs with both scheduled and manual snapshots. The lab also demonstrates how to recover files from deleted VMs, providing IT teams with the tools to refine their data protection and disaster recovery strategies.

Ensure Workload Resiliency

VergeIO’s multi-tenant Virtual Data Center (VDC) technology provides an extra layer of security and resiliency by isolating workloads, ensuring that issues like ransomware attacks in one tenant do not affect others. The Virtual Data Center Lab allows participants to create tenants and sub-tenants, test workload isolation, and experience firsthand VergeOS’ advanced protection features.

“These hands-on labs give prospective customers and partners the ability to explore VergeOS before committing to a proof of concept or purchase,” said Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO. “This allows them to understand how VergeOS can improve their infrastructure and operations fully.”

The VergeIO Labs are available for potential customers to try today. Please register here.

About VergeIO

VergeIO is the future of virtualization and the leading VMware alternative. Its ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) collapses the traditional IT stack—compute, storage, and networking—into a unified data center operating environment: VergeOS. This efficiency enables higher workload density on existing hardware while improving data resiliency and lowering costs. VergeOS simplifies IT, delivering improved availability and substantial savings for businesses of all sizes.

About TechAccelerator

TechAccelerator is a cutting-edge SaaS platform and professional services company designed to accelerate revenue opportunities for technology clients. It allows its clients to focus on their core competencies while letting the TechAccelerator team create solution environments that will drive more leads and sales. TechAccelerator reduces costs, shortens sales cycles, increases qualified leads, and improves profitability.

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Judy Smith, JPR Communications
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Evaluating new technology solutions is a crucial but often daunting task for IT professionals, especially when considering the challenges of testing VMware alternatives. As organizations seek more efficient, cost-effective, and scalable alternatives, testing VMware alternatives often presents significant obstacles, particularly when IT teams are limited by time and lack the necessary hardware resources to test new platforms properly.

Overcome the Challenges of Testing VMware Alternatives
Overcome the Challenges of Testing VMware Alternatives

At VergeIO, we understand these challenges, so we’ve introduced self-paced, hands-on labs that enable IT professionals to explore VergeOS without the typical barriers. These labs give users a practical, real-world experience with our ultraconverged infrastructure, helping them understand how it can simplify their operations and provide a robust alternative to VMware.

Key Challenge 1: Lack of Time

One of the biggest challenges of testing VMware alternatives is finding the time to evaluate new platforms thoroughly. IT teams are already stretched too thin, managing existing infrastructure, troubleshooting day-to-day issues, and running systems smoothly. Adding a product evaluation to their to-do list can seem impossible. Many IT professionals that we speak to have renewed VMware for one year in the hopes that they will have time to vet the growing cast of alternatives properly.

VergeIO’s Solution

Our hands-on labs are designed to fit into the busiest schedules. Each lab takes just 15 to 20 minutes to complete, giving IT professionals a focused, detailed look at VergeOS without demanding significant time. During a break or after hours, you can explore VergeOS on your terms, gaining valuable insights without sacrificing your daily responsibilities.

Key Challenge 2: Lack of Available Test Hardware

Another common hurdle in testing VMware alternatives is the need for dedicated test hardware. Setting up a lab environment with multiple servers, storage devices, and networking equipment to mirror a VMware setup is costly and time-consuming, and many organizations simply don’t have the budget or resources to create this kind of environment.

VergeIO’s Solution

Overcome the Challenges of Testing VMware Alternatives

With VergeIO’s hands-on labs, you don’t need any additional hardware. Our labs provide an environment that mirrors real-world conditions, allowing you to experience VergeOS without needing physical infrastructure. This eliminates the financial and logistical barriers to testing VMware alternatives and lets you evaluate our solution wherever and whenever you’re ready.

How VergeIO’s Hands-On Labs Help Overcome These Challenges

VergeIO’s self-paced, hands-on labs are specifically designed to overcome the challenges of testing VMware alternatives. These labs provide a seamless, immersive experience without complex setups or additional hardware. Here’s what you can explore:

  • VMware Migration Lab: This lab walks you through connecting to a VMware environment, migrating virtual machines into VergeOS, using ioMigrate, and launching them. You’ll learn how VergeOS simplifies the migration process, making it clear what to expect when transitioning from VMware.
  • Data Protection and Recovery Lab: Learn how VergeOS’ ioClone-powered snapshot technology helps protect virtual machines and recover even to a single file. You’ll create VMs, take snapshots, and recover lost data, giving you firsthand experience with just one of VergeOS’ advanced data protection features.
  • Virtual Data Centers Lab: In this lab, you will learn how to build multi-tenant virtual data centers, deploy multiple virtual machines, and isolate workloads for enhanced security. This lab demonstrates VergeOS’ secure multi-tenant capabilities, which are crucial for businesses managing diverse workloads and requiring workload isolation.
  • More Labs Coming Soon: We’re continually expanding our lab offerings. Upcoming labs will cover the following:
    • Networking deep dive: exploring micro-segmentation, firewalls, and routers
    • NAS lab: learn how to use VergeOS’ built-in NAS capabilities
    • Ransomware Protection and Recovery Lab: to teach you how to configure VergeOS to defend against and recover from ransomware attacks with an infrastructure-wide approach
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Why These Labs Matter

VergeIO’s hands-on labs remove the typical roadblocks that IT professionals face, by addressing the challenges of testing VMware alternatives. These labs offer a real-world look at VergeOS’ ultraconverged infrastructure, which integrates virtualization, storage, and networking into a single piece of software. You’ll quickly see how VergeOS is the future of virtualization that can optimize your operations, lower costs, and improve data resiliency—without additional hardware or extensive setup.

As you progress through the labs, you’ll gain practical experience that will give you a head start when you’re ready to conduct a full Proof of Concept (PoC) with your virtual machines in your data center. The hands-on labs provide the confidence to confirm that VergeOS is the right solution for your environment. By the time you begin the PoC, you’ll already be familiar with the platform, which can significantly reduce your testing time and help you move forward with VergeOS more efficiently.

Start Exploring Today

If the challenges of testing VMware alternatives have held you back, VergeIO’s hands-on labs are your solution. These labs allow you to explore VergeOS at your own pace without requiring complex setup or additional equipment.

Ready to see for yourself? Register now to access VergeIO’s hands-on labs and explore how easy it is to migrate, protect, and manage your virtual infrastructure with VergeOS.

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