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DCIG evaluated 19 VMware alternatives across 425+ features. But feature comparisons miss what matters most: vendor commitment, support capabilities, hardware independence, and architectural efficiency. These overlooked criteria determine long-term success far more than any checkbox on a feature matrix.

The conventional wisdom for moving from VMware to private cloud is swapping hypervisors. The better path consolidates infrastructure into integrated platforms. Organizations running four or more servers gain unified management, hardware flexibility, and efficiency improvements that hypervisor replacement cannot deliver.

Most VMware alternatives focus on hypervisor swaps. That preserves expensive storage arrays, proprietary networking, and complex operations costing 5X more than licensing. A Private Cloud OS virtualizes the entire data center as one system, eliminating complexity rather than hiding it behind automation.