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The StorageReview VergeIO lab results show that VergeOS meets the demands of IT professionals looking for a VMware Alternative. StorageReview’s evaluation revealed that VergeIO not only matches VMware’s performance; it surpasses it. Their testing shows that VergeIO is a viable choice for those seeking a more efficient, high-performance solution at a lower cost.

The VergeIO Review Process

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results:

StorageReview’s in-depth evaluation used an advanced hardware setup that included Solidigm SSDs, AMD EPYC processors, and Giga Computing’s dense liquid-cooled nodes. The lab environment was designed to replicate the real-world demands of enterprise IT infrastructure, emphasizing high-performance workloads like virtualization, VDI, and database management.

The goal was to assess VergeIO’s ability to deliver seamless performance while evaluating its built-in disaster recovery features and ease of use.

Highlights: StorageReview VergeIO lab results

  1. 1000 VM Bootstorm in 71 Seconds
    VergeIO was able to boot 1,000 VMs in just over a minute—an impressive feat that highlights its ability to handle high-demand workloads efficiently. This benefits enterprises deploying large VDI environments or managing dynamic workloads where quick spin-up times are critical.

  2. 6.9 GB/s Write Performance
    VergeIO’s platform achieved 6.9 GB/s write speeds during testing. For organizations dealing with large data volumes, this means more efficient data transfers and reduced latency for write-intensive applications. Solidigm’s SSDs were crucial in achieving these results, demonstrating the synergy between VergeIO’s software and modern hardware.

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results: Scalability and Cost Efficiency:

IT professionals need a high-performance alternative to VMware that offers speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. VMware’s licensing can be intricate and expensive, particularly for large organizations. In comparison, VergeIO’s per-node licensing is more straightforward and predictable. VergeIO’s base license encompasses all advanced features, including storage tiering and disaster recovery, without incurring extra costs for add-ons.

VergeIO’s model is at least 50% cheaper than VMware’s, providing enterprises a straightforward way to lower infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance. This pricing transparency is a significant advantage for companies looking to scale efficiently.

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results: vSAN with Storage Tiering

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results:

VergeIO offers storage tiering as part of its base package, allowing IT teams to optimize data placement based on performance needs. Solidigm SSDs were used in the lab to create two distinct storage pools—Tier 1 with high-performance TLC SSDs and Tier 2 with larger, more cost-effective QLC SSDs. VergeIO’s ability to seamlessly manage different storage types within the same platform simplifies operations while ensuring that performance-critical applications can access the fastest available storage.

VergeIO’s vSAN includes no additional licensing fees for consumed capacity, setting it apart from competitors like VMware, which requires higher-tier licenses for high-capacity environments.

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results: Migration

One of the biggest concerns for organizations migrating away from VMware is the complexity of the migration process. However, StorageReview found that VergeIO makes this transition seamless. The platform includes native integration with vCenter and ESXi APIs, allowing IT teams to sync and migrate VMs with minimal disruption. The ability to retain critical settings like MAC addresses and storage tiers ensures a smooth and efficient transition to VergeIO. Enroll in our hands-on lab to perform a VMware Migration in real life.

StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results: Data Protection and Recovery

Beyond performance, IT professionals require solutions that ensure a critical workload’s protection and recoverability. VergeIO’s built-in disaster recovery capabilities provide a clear advantage. During testing, the platform’s high availability feature demonstrated quick recovery, with VMs becoming available again on another node in 138 seconds after a node failure. When coupled with IOGuardian, even this short time can be potentially eliminated thanks to its ability to provide real-time recovery from multiple simultaneous drive or server failures.

For data protection IOClone, based snapshots enable independent snapshots that aren’t reliant on previous clones, improving recovery times. This independence means that IT can have thousands of active snapshots and retain them indefinitely without impacting performance. VergeOS provides a robust scheduling capability for managing snapshot retention. Enroll in our hands-on lab to learn the full potential of VergeOS Snapshots.

By incorporating disaster recovery directly into the platform, VergeIO eliminates the need for separate solutions, reducing complexity and cost. VergeIO can replicate an entire data center in minutes. This replication includes data and the complete configuration (VM, network settings), enabling fast and comprehensive recovery even on different hardware.

VergeIO simplifies backup and recovery processes with native snapshot and replication features. Its disaster recovery integration within the central platform ensures that backups can be completed quickly, minimizing the risk of data loss and reducing downtime.

For organizations where uptime and data protection are paramount, VergeIO’s ability to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into its core offering—without additional licensing fees—offers significant operational advantages.

The Bottom Line: A VMware Alternative That’s Easier, Faster, and More Affordable

VergeIO’s performance, scalability, and built-in disaster recovery features make it a compelling alternative to VMware. The StorageReview VergeIO Lab Results show that VergeIO performs exceptionally well under real-world conditions, simplifies operations, and reduces costs.

With 50% lower licensing costs, simplified management, and a platform built to handle complex enterprise workloads, VergeIO offers a solution that meets the needs of IT professionals looking to reduce overhead without compromising on performance or protection.

If you’re exploring VMware alternatives, VergeIO is worth serious consideration. To learn more about how VergeIO performed in the lab, register for our webinar on October 23rd with StorageReview and Solidigm. We’ll demonstrate these results firsthand.

For the full StorageReview report, visit StorageReview’s Lab Evaluation.

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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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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
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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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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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In addition to being less expensive and delivering feature parity, VMware alternatives must also provide high-performance migration out of the legacy platform. What sounds like a fast migration time—a couple of minutes per virtual machine (VM)—can actually cause significant outages. The impact of this slow migration is often overlooked during testing because the customer doesn’t migrate at an equal scale to their production environment.

Why Fast Migration is Critical

Most VMware Alternatives require that the VMware VM be powered off during the migration, and all require it for the final cut-over. As a result, seemingly fast migration times can result in substantial downtime when dealing with at-scale migrations. For example, a migration time of two minutes per VM might seem reasonable. However, when extrapolated to 100 VMs, it totals over three hours (200 minutes). For 1,000 VMs, this translates to over 33 hours (2,000 minutes) of potential downtime, which is simply unacceptable for most businesses. Even if migration is done ten VMs at a time, there is the potential for 10 outages of 20 minutes each. The prolonged migration time can lead to significant disruptions, affecting productivity, customer service, and revenue.

On August 15th VergeIO, we demonstrate, live the capability to migrate over 100 VMware VMs in less than five seconds. This high-performance VMware migration significantly reduces downtime, ensuring business continuity and minimizing operational impact. Because VergeOS’ integrated migration capability leverages the VMware backup API set and, therefore, also supports change block tracking, customers can make the final cutover with an absolute minimum of downtime.

IT Time Savings from High-Performance VMware Migration

High-performance VMware migration optimizes efficiency and resource use. Quick transitions free up IT personnel, allowing teams to focus on other critical tasks instead of lengthy migration processes. This efficiency saves time and reduces labor costs and resource usage.

Our solution, VergeOS, exemplifies this efficiency. By integrating the VMware migration function into a unified data center operating environment, VergeOS enables the rapid migration of VMs, optimizing the use of existing hardware and resources. IT can migrate VMs in seconds and spin up test environments in less than a minute. They will also find that the VergeOS interface is faster and more responsive than VMware vCenter.

High-Performance VMware Migration

Cost Savings with High-Performance VMware Migration

Extended migration periods often come with increased costs. Slow migration can lead to the need for additional hardware. Customers must typically acquire a complete suite of extra servers to be available for the duration of the migration process. High-performance VMware migration solutions like VergeIO’s can dramatically reduce these costs. Fast migrations and a flexible code base mean that VergeOS can utilize existing hardware, making “migrate-in-place” a reality.

High-Performance VMware Migration

Enhanced Testing and Performance Through High-Performance VMware Migration

Another critical factor is the ability to create test environments quickly. Slow migration processes can extend testing periods, potentially leading to incomplete or inadequate testing. This can result in unforeseen issues when the alternative platform goes live. High-performance VMware migration ensures that test environments can be created and validated quickly, allowing thorough compatibility and performance testing.

VergeOS facilitates this by enabling the rapid creation of multiple test environments thanks to its fast migration. Its Virtual Data Center technology enables multiple virtual test labs to be created of the same group of VMs or workloads to facilitate parallel testing. This capability ensures that businesses have confidence in the new environment’s performance and reliability.

Scalability and Reduced Risk with High-Performance VMware Migration

High-performance VMware migration is essential for scalability. As businesses grow, their IT infrastructure needs to scale accordingly. Slow migration processes can hinder this growth, leading to bottlenecks and delays. With VergeIO’s rapid migration capabilities, businesses can scale their infrastructure efficiently, migrating additional VMs as needed without significant downtime.

The Value of VergeOS Post-Migration

Once the migration to VergeOS is complete, businesses can immediately begin to realize several key benefits:

  1. Cost Efficiency: VergeOS reduces operational costs through optimized resource utilization, reduced infrastructure requirements, and a per-server licensing model. This efficiency allows organizations to allocate budgets and resources to other strategic initiatives.
  2. Enhanced Security: Post-migration, VergeOS continues to employ advanced encryption and security protocols to ensure data integrity and confidentiality, providing ongoing protection for sensitive information.
  3. Secure Multi-Tenancy: VergeOS supports secure multi-tenancy, enabling multiple customers or departments to share the same infrastructure while ensuring strict isolation and security for each tenant. This capability enhances resource utilization while maintaining robust security standards.
  4. Scalability: VergeOS supports dynamic scaling, allowing organizations to expand their virtual environments as needed easily. Nodes of different types can be added to the VergeOS instance, including compute-only or storage-only servers. This flexibility ensures that IT infrastructure can grow in line with business demands and that servers can run for years beyond their warranty.
  5. Simplified Management: VergeOS offers a user-friendly interface and comprehensive management tools, streamlining ongoing operations and making it easier for IT teams to manage and monitor virtual environments. Customers repeatedly tell us they can get more done in their day with VergeOS than they could under VMware.
  6. Improved Performance: Organizations benefit from VergeOS’ optimized performance, which enhances application speed and reliability. This results in a more responsive and efficient IT environment, contributing to overall operational excellence.

Conclusion

As Chris Mellor over at Blocks and Files said, “Several suppliers of alternative hypervisor systems,” so when considering a VMware alternative, the ability to migrate VMware VMs quickly and efficiently is a critical differentiator. High-performance migration reduces downtime, enhances efficiency, cuts costs, and ensures thorough testing. VergeIO’s solution, VergeOS, exemplifies these benefits, making it a compelling choice for businesses looking to transition from VMware. It offers not only a rapid transfer but also a more robust and complete solution capable of virtualizing the entire data center.

If you are interested in witnessing this high-performance VMware migration in action, we are hosting a webinar on August 15th, 2024, at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT. The webinar will feature a live demonstration showcasing the migration of 100 VMware VMs in seconds, highlighting the significant advantages of our solution. Register now to see this rapid migration in action and learn more about how VergeIO can transform your IT infrastructure.

VIO – Demonstration: Executing VMware Migration at Scale

For more information about VergeIO and to see the press release detailing our latest achievements, visit VergeIO Simplifies VMware Migration.

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