IKOULA, a French web hosting, dedicated server, and cloud computing provider, has selected CloudStack as an open-source cloud management platform for its cloud offerings. 
The 24th release of OpenStack, the Xena release, includes support for new hardware features, improved integration among components, and reduction of technical debt to maintain OpenStack’s stable and reliable core. 
Zerto has announced the general availability of their Zerto 9 product in order to put up a fight against ransomware. With “one of a kind†automation and immutability features, Zerto 9 would offer enhanced cloud data management and protection capabilities. 
Rapid.Space, a high-performance and hyper open cloud provider created by Nexedi and Amarisoft to build an international cloud infrastructure focusing on openness, transparency, and reversibility, has established its first Point-of-Presence in Japan now, in collaboration with Nexedi KK. 
Hosting company NetActuate, a company operating one of the world’s largest IPv4 and IPv6 peered networks, has completed an infrastructure expansion at their San Jose data center, adding capacity for virtual machines (VMs), bare metal servers, and colocation. Clients now have access to more bandwidth thanks to the addition of new connectivity partners. 
Red Hat OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of this well-known enterprise Kubernetes platform, would let companies create new cloud-native applications faster without abandoning old environments or IT investments. Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 would provide a strong platform for developing and connecting different workloads across the hybrid cloud. Open-source software solutions provider, Red Hat, has announced the general availability of its migration toolkit for virtualization. The migration toolkit would help organizations accelerate open hybrid cloud strategies by making it easier to migrate existing workloads to modern infrastructure. 
Engineers at NetActuate have just finished expanding their Dubai data center. It will increase capacity for NetActuate’s infrastructure services such as bare metal, colocation, and virtual machines, as well as available bandwidth. 
International CDN (content delivery network) provider G-Core Labs, a company delivering cloud and managed hosting solutions at the edge, has launched a new cloud region in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 
Storage technology vendor Synology is continuing its push into high-end server storage with the launch of two new RackStation solutions, RackStation RS2421+ and RS2421RP+. Both storage systems are built to excel at large-scale general storage applications, including as backup, file, or private cloud server. Proxmox virtual machines (VM) are highly popular with home server aficionados, whereas VMware sits squarely at the front of the enterprise VM market. Both of these tools offer free and paid versions, but with vastly different features and support at that level. This article compares the use cases, license options, performance, and extra features for Proxmox vs. VMware.
Use cases for Proxmox vs. VMware
Proxmox and VMware are often considered equivalents, although Proxmox is open source and VMware is a proprietary enterprise option. They’re both used for cloud computing and server consolidation, but that’s where their use case similarities end.
Proxmox’s free and open source software is widely used for server isolation and software development for businesses of all sizes. It’s also a good choice for homelab builders looking to support their builds.
VMware offers a free product, but the paid licenses give businesses support and software stability for enterprise business apps and works as infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
License options for Proxmox and VMware
Proxmox is a free and open source GNU AGPL V3 software. Anyone can download and use the product free of charge. Proxmox does provide four support tiers, however. These tiers give licensees access to the enterprise repository with automatic periodic updates, the complete feature set, and access to support. The highest licensing tier includes unlimited support tickets with a 2-hour response time during business hours.
VMware offers the vSphere software as a limited free version, and a 60-day free trial download of paid licenses, but subscriptions are required after the trial period is over. There are two paid license options: Standard and Enterprise Plus. You can also add on the Tanzu Add-On to any edition to access the Tanzu for Kubernetes tool set.
Operating systems supported by Proxmox vs. VMware
Proxmox runs on the Debian GNU operating system (OS) for Linux with a customized Linux kernel. It runs kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) for virtualization and Linux containers (LXC) for containerization.
VMware runs on ESXi, the VMware bare-metal hypervisor for vSphere. As a type 1 hypervisor, the OS supports nearly any operating system on a virtualized machine, as long as the VM has the operating power to support it. That said, as a bare-metal hypervisor, installing ESXi requires updates when VMware drops support for older versions.
Proxmox vs. VMware performance
VMWare vSphere will outperform Proxmox in most cases, as it’s built for enterprise-grade computing. Proxmox provides one level of performance, while vSphere tiers computing power based on licensing. vSphere’s RAM per host scales up to twice as high as Proxmox, but licensing information does not make clear what organizations can expect for the operating levels at the Standard license.
Each organization has different needs, so comparing the major features and performance standards may not be enough. For example, Proxmox offers a full web-supported graphical user interface (GUI) in addition to command line input (CLI), whereas vSphere runs primarily from the terminal with CLI. It’s also possible to automate new node access to storage with Proxmox. vSphere users will need to manually create new nodes.
A major differentiator for many organizations is the inclusion of drop-in Kubernetes support in vSphere. While Proxmox does not have direct Kubernetes tools, it does have extensive forum support for adding Kubernetes containers to Proxmox VMs.
Choosing Proxmox vs. VMware
Whether to purchase Proxmox vs. VMware comes down to money and support. If your organization has the financial resources to purchase and maintain VMware licensing and can manage getting locked in to VMware on your hardware, you may benefit from the increased performance and usability. However, if you’ve got more experience or internal resources than money, your organization may benefit from the flexibility of Proxmox.
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