Broadcom, following its acquisition of VMware, is now the official vendor behind VMware vSphere — one of the most widely adopted enterprise virtualization platforms. vSphere provides a robust, scalable, and secure foundation for modern data centers, enabling organizations to virtualize their infrastructure with high levels of performance and efficiency. As the cornerstone of the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy, vSphere offers a comprehensive feature set including vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Storage vMotion, and VMware Tools integration. Its mature ecosystem and proven reliability make it the hypervisor of choice for mission-critical workloads in both private and hybrid cloud environments.
VMware vSphere is natively supported by Apache CloudStack through a dedicated hypervisor integration. This allows administrators to fully leverage vSphere’s advanced virtualization features within CloudStack-managed environments. The integration supports key capabilities such as:
– vMotion and live migration of instances
– Distributed resource scheduling and HA clustering
– Datastore and template management
– Integration with vCenter for multi-host orchestration
– VM lifecycle operations (deploy, stop, migrate, snapshot, scale)
CloudStack acts as a unified orchestration layer, allowing VMware resources to be managed alongside other hypervisors such as KVM or XCP-ng — enabling true hybrid cloud management.
Widely adopted with a feature-rich platform, providing a robust virtualization solution for many enterprises.
Proprietary nature can lead to higher costs, especially when compared to open-source alternatives.
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