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DCIG highlights a key but often overlooked benefit of choosing the right VMware vSphere alternative: extending the useful life of existing server hardware. The analysis points to VergeOS’s infrastructure operating system architecture as a differentiator, reducing software overhead and allowing organizations to repurpose and operate servers for years longer than traditional layered virtualization stacks. The result is lower licensing pressure, delayed hardware refresh cycles, and a more sustainable path forward for VMware exits.

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CXQuest highlights VergeIO’s latest automation milestone as a meaningful shift in how infrastructure directly supports customer experience. By adding native support for Packer and Ansible, VergeOS delivers a true end-to-end automation chain that replaces fragmented, brittle workflows with consistent, predictable operations. The article underscores how VergeIO’s unified architecture simplifies VMware exit strategies while helping enterprises and service providers improve reliability, speed, and CX outcomes through infrastructure that behaves the same at any scale.

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VergeIO was recently featured in StorageNewsletter for unveiling new HashiCorp Packer and Ansible support in VergeOS, completing an end-to-end infrastructure automation chain for enterprise IT and cloud service providers. This integration enables customers to automate the full lifecycle of their private cloud environments – from image creation and resource provisioning to configuration and monitoring – using a modern Infrastructure-as-Code toolset that includes Packer, Terraform, Ansible, and Prometheus. By standardizing golden images and enforcing configuration as code, VergeOS helps organizations pursuing VMware exit initiatives and multi-tenant cloud services achieve more predictable, secure, and cost-efficient operations, with general availability of these capabilities planned for Q1 2026.

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Ann Arbor, MI — December 9, 2025 VergeIO, the VMware alternative built on a single,
integrated codebase, announced new support for HashiCorp Packer and Ansible, completing
an end-to-end infrastructure automation chain for Enterprise IT and CSPs deploying
infrastructure on VergeOS.


With this release, VergeOS customers can now automate the full lifecycle of their environments:image creation, resource provisioning, configuration, and monitoring. The integration extends VergeOS into modern Infrastructure-as-Code ecosystems and aligns it with automation pipelines already used by platform engineering and DevOps teams.
Delivering a True End-to-End Infrastructure Automation Chain
The VergeOS automation chain now enables:

  • Packer to build standardized images
  • Terraform to provision VDCs, networks, and VMs
  • Ansible to enforce configuration and policies
  • Prometheus to monitor performance and health

This chain provides organizations with a predictable, repeatable foundation for deploying and
managing infrastructure while maintaining control over every step, from image build to ongoing operations.


“This release raises the bar for automation in private cloud environments,” said Yan Ness, CEO
of VergeIO. “Customers now have a complete automation chain that allows them to build,
deploy, and manage infrastructure on VergeOS with clarity and consistency.”

Standardizing Infrastructure at Scale

Packer support enables customers to create reliable golden images for Linux and Windows and publish them directly into VergeOS. This reduces drift, improves security, and simplifies multi-site or multi-tenant operations.


Ansible support provides modules for managing Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), networking, VMs,
snapshots, and replication. These modules allow teams to code their desired state and apply
updates consistently across environments.


“Customers want infrastructure that behaves the same every time,” said Jason Yaeger, SVP of
Engineering at VergeIO. “The end-to-end automation chain gives them a clear and structured model that fits into their existing pipelines and accelerates how quickly they can deploy
workloads.”


Accelerating VMware Exit Initiatives

Availability

Packer and Ansible support is available for preview now and will be included in the upcoming
VergeOS release planned for Q1 2026. Customers will receive updated documentation,
examples, and reference architectures through the VergeIO Support Portal.


Many organizations leaving VMware seek a cleaner, automated path to build new environments without inheriting legacy template issues. The Packer and Ansible integrations give migration teams a controlled, repeatable method to replatform workloads while improving efficiency for future operations. CSPs and service providers also benefit from more consistent onboarding workflows.
Standardized templates paired with automated configuration reduce the resource cost of
managing large numbers of customers.

Learn more in our upcoming webinar on December 17.


About VergeIO
VergeIO is the VMware alternative designed for organizations seeking a simpler, unified
infrastructure platform. VergeOS replaces the traditional hypervisor, storage array, and network stack with a single integrated codebase. CSPs, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies rely on VergeOS to reduce cost, extend hardware life, and automate
operations across their environments.


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Judy Smith, JPR Communications
[email protected]
818-522-9673

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Virtualization teams often look at Proxmox after VMware, but its modular mix of KVM, Linux networking, ZFS/Ceph, and separate backup adds long-term operational complexity. As clusters grow, keeping all those subsystems aligned for mobility, availability, and recovery becomes the operator’s burden. VergeOS instead integrates hypervisor, storage, networking, protection, and private AI into a single Infrastructure Operating System and unified codebase. The article concludes that the real VMware successor decision is about architecture, not just swapping hypervisors.

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The article highlights how VergeIQ enables organizations to deploy private AI within their own data centers — no cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in — while VergeOS strengthens ransomware defenses with immutable snapshots and unifies compute, storage, networking, and AI into one software-defined platform

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