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:
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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
Frequently Asked Questions
StorPool One is a turnkey KVM cloud platform that provides a cost-effective, high-performance, and open virtualization solution for customers seeking to move away from VMware.
- Eliminate Licensing Lock-in: It leverages open-source Linux KVM, providing freedom from vendor licensing constraints and the high costs associated with Broadcom’s changes to VMware’s licensing model.
- Achieve Excellence in KVM: StorPool One pre-integrates compute, storage, and networking into a streamlined, complete stack designed for KVM environments.
- Flexible Deployment: The platform supports hyperconverged, disaggregated, or mixed infrastructure deployment models to match specific organizational needs.
StorPool One offers a superior, smarter path forward by delivering a fully supported, highly reliable alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms.
StorPool One is engineered to deliver enterprise-grade performance and reliability, ensuring mission-critical applications run without compromise.
- Ultra-High Performance: The platform delivers ultra-low latencies and millions of IOPS across the cluster to accelerate application performance.
- Proven Uptime: It provides greater than 99.999% production-proven uptime, ensuring continuous availability for your workloads. Read our uptime report.
- Robust Data Protection: Includes advanced disaster recovery features like unlimited snapshots and asynchronous replication for comprehensive data protection.
When comparing virtualization options, StorPool One consistently surpasses the performance metrics of many legacy virtualization platforms like VMware vSAN. Some of our customers call us the “vSAN for KVM environments”.
StorPool One is built on an open, Linux KVM-based platform and is designed to fit diverse infrastructure needs, enabling maximum resource utilization and cost efficiency.
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): This deployment model is highly cost-effective, as the StorPool storage software uses only about 10% of a server’s CPU and memory resources, leaving the rest for computing power.
- Disaggregated and Mixed Models: StorPool One’s architecture provides the flexibility to deploy storage in a dedicated disaggregated model or a mixed model, adapting to your existing infrastructure needs.
By offering flexible deployment options like HCI and disaggregated storage, StorPool One ensures that you can optimize your resources and lower TCO, unlike rigid proprietary solutions.
The FMS from StorPool is a comprehensive, end-to-end expert support model that goes beyond traditional managed services to guarantee the success and continuous operation of your cloud platform.
- End-to-End Expert Support: StorPool engineers manage all critical phases of cloud adoption, including the initial design and deployment.
- 24/7 Monitoring and Maintenance: The expert team provides round-the-clock monitoring and handles all day-to-day administration and error correction.
This fully managed approach minimizes your operational burden and transition risks, ensuring StorPool is a reliable partner in your migration to KVM and a smarter choice than self-managed storage alternatives.
StorPool One is designed to minimize risk and simplify the shift from VMware to open-source KVM virtualization with automated migration capabilities.
- Automated Migration: The platform facilitates automated, seamless migration from existing VMware environments to KVM.
- Eliminate Storage Silos: By modernizing your virtualization stack, you eliminate existing storage silos, consolidating your environment for better efficiency.
For businesses dealing with the high cost and complexity of VMware/ESXi, StorPool One provides a clear, supported path to KVM, making the move to an open-source, high-performance cloud infrastructure straightforward.
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Dive into detailed technical documentation covering deployment, operations, integrations, disaster recovery, APIs, and best practices.
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StorPool gives you a proven path to migrate away from VMware – without risk, without downtime, and without compromise.