Open source alternatives to VMware vSphere
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what VMware vSphere does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What VMware vSphere does
- Run virtual machines on serverscore
- Central management of hosts and VMscore
- Live migration of VMs
- High availability and failover
- Resource pools and scheduling
- Shared storage
- Snapshots and backups
- Virtual networking
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 zsvirtKVM-based cloud infrastructure engine for managing virtual machines |
Replaces it85% | 2.1k+29 | None | 81% | Needs a server | GPL-3.0 | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Resource pools and scheduling. Not shown: High availability and failover.See the evidence
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