Make the Move: The VMware Alternative with No Lock-In, Zero Bloat and Fair Cost
Your infrastructure, your way – without the cost, complexity, or uncertainty of VMware.
VMware by Broadcom Customers at a Crossroad
Broadcom has put their customers and non-hyperscaler CSP partners in a financial bind with their massive licensing increases. Even forcing their customers into buying functionality they may not want, such as vSAN, NSX, or vCloud Director. Only the largest can negotiate for better pricing from Broadcom, but not by a large margin.
This is forcing customers and partners to look for palatable VMware alternatives. The key word being palatable. There are many VMware alternatives; however, too many come as a disjointed set of tools with sub-par performance, functionalities, flexibility, availability, and with a service at too high of a cost point.
StorPool provides VMware customers and partners on the path away from VMware with an enticing alternative – to leverage a high-performance, cost-effective, future-proof platform based on Linux KVM. KVM is the open standard hypervisor that is the basis for most successful non-VMware hypervisors.
StorPool One: Complete Integrated KVM Cloud Platform
StorPool One delivers everything VMware customers expect without the licensing lock-in.
 | Turnkey cloud platform by StorPool |
| Compute, storage, and networking – pre-integrated and supported end-to-end by StorPool |
| Extremely low latency – ideal for transactional databases |
| Best-in-class Disaster Recovery (DR) especially for mission-critical VMs |
| Uniquely available as HCI, disaggregated, or mixed HCI, eliminating storage silos |
| Rapid deployment – Production-ready in days, not months |
StorPool One - A Turnkey Cloud Platform that just Works
Not all KVM clouds are created equal. Here’s how StorPool One closes the gaps:
Discover more about StorPool VolumeCare and our Disaster Recovery Engine.
The StorPool One Advantage
Our turnkey KVM cloud platform minimizes Day-0 through Day-2 risks with a high-performance, highly-available, simple, and scalable architecture with a predictable-cost business model. The platform reduces complexity by minimizing tooling and eliminating manual changes, while enabling automatic migrations during dual-run. And, it allows for easy handling of capacity and performance drift caused by noisy neighbors, resource contention, and backup/DR policies.
Performance
at Scale
- 2 orders of magnitude (100x) lower latencies – sub 100µs latencies, as measured from the VM
- Under high loads, high capacity utilization of ≥ 90%, and erasure coding
- Millions of IOPS across a cluster
Unmatched Reliability and Availability
- Production proven > 99.999% uptime availability from all causes
- Non-disruptive everything – patches, hot fixes, upgrades
- 2-node fault tolerance with high-speed erasure coding, or 3-copy mirroring
World Class
Expert Team
- White glove service from conception to production and beyond
- Design, deployment, maintenance – all handled by StorPool engineers
- StorPool customers report significantly improved sleep quality after adoption
Zero Compromise Disaster Recovery
- Unlimited snapshots with RPOs as low as 15 mins
- Snapshot asynchronous replication
- Unique DR capabilities of 1:1, many:1, many:many mesh
Peerless
Flexibility
- HCI for cost-effective, minimalistic cloud deployment
- Disaggregated architecture for large clouds
- HCI and Disaggregated combination
- No more storage silos
The Extensive StorPool Storage Advantages
Broad integration with popular Cloud Management Platforms and Open APIs enable integrating your preferred workflows for a faster, more scalable, lower cost vSAN for KVM Clouds with unparalleled performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency.
| Self-service web interfaces for end-users |
| Automatic migrations from VMware and between technologies |
| Bespoke cloud management platforms |
| Automatic monthly billing for consumed capacity |
“We do not need to worry about maintaining the storage platform itself as it just works. With StorPool we experience extremely low response times, very high skill, and knowledge from both the tech and the business teams.”,
Kevin Schouwenaar, Technology Director, Hosted.nl
How It Works
StorPool will manage and execute all phases of your cloud adoption from zero to full-time 24х7х365 always-on operation.
Design
StorPool Engineers will work with you to determine your organization’s requirements from day one through to future expansion needs.
Deployment
StorPool will deploy and configure your storage stack including setting up the integration with your CMP.
Ongoing Operations
StorPool experts will perform all administrative tasks with 24/7 monitoring, taking the grunt work off your team.
Maintanance and Updates
You’ll never have to worry about keeping all the layers of your software up-to-date with the StorPool experts on hand.
Continuous Improvement
As your business needs fluctuate and grow, StorPool will manage and perform administrative changes and performance tuning.
Choose the Right Deployment Model for your Cloud
Disaggregated Cloud
In a disaggregated deployment, your hypervisor(s), virtual machines, and applications run on separate servers than the ones that run your storage services. This is the model used for large cloud deployments. It’s easy to migrate your data from a large storage system to distributed storage like StorPool.
Hyperconverged Cloud
In a hyperconverged deployment, your hypervisor(s), virtual machines, and applications run on the same servers that run your storage services. Since the StorPool Storage software only uses about 10% of a server’s resources (CPU and RAM), a hyperconverged deployment can be very cost-effective as it requires less server hardware.
Mixed Infrastructure Cloud
Organizations don’t generally start out with mixed infrastructure. They usually start off with hyperconverged infrastructure, and later, when their needs change, they realize they need to scale (out or up) their storage or their compute but not both. The ability to support a mixed infrastructure gives an organization the ability to add only the additional resources they need.
“We have been using OpenNebula with Storpool storage for a project to virtualise some bare metal servers. With Storpool managing the cluster for us, it has been very stable and exceeded our expectations. From initial planning stage to installation and setup we have been very pleased with the responsiveness and knowledge of those on the Storpool provisioning and support teams. Knowing that the platform is managed allows us to focus on other areas of the business safe in the knowledge that it is being well looked after.”
Chris James, Managing Director – Sub 6 Limited
Discover more about StorPool Storage
Get Started with the Smarter VMware Alternative
StorPool gives you a proven path to migrate away from VMware – without risk, without downtime, and without compromise.