Virtualization, hyper converged, hybrid cloud and other solutions have become preferred alternatives to VMware
Broadcom's latest move - a cease and desist notice has been issued to VMware perpetual license users whose contracts have expired. Permanent license holders are required to sign a subscription agreement, otherwise installing any updates (excluding zero day security patches) will be considered a breach of contract and infringement of intellectual property rights, and may face high compensation and legal liability.
In fact, this concern has recently been raised by Gartner ® The "Guidelines for Choosing VMware Alternative Solutions in the Wave of Broadcom Acquisition" released has already been warned.
According to Gartner's 2025 survey on Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (see Figure 1), the majority of respondents (64%) expressed negative emotions and serious concerns about the acquisition, with no one holding a completely positive view. ”
In addition, over half of the respondents (52%) expressed dissatisfaction with the experience and were concerned that VMware would now be acquired by Broadcom
Figure 1 (Source: Gartner，A Guide to Choosing a VMware Alternative in the Wake of Broadcom Acquisition)
In the report, Gartner identified two major options for VMware alternatives——
Tactical options include VMware alternative delivery, alternative virtual machine management programs, hyper converged infrastructure, etc.
Strategic choices include distributed hybrid infrastructure (DHI) and container platforms, full stack infrastructure platforms, etc.
Deeply convinced that hyper fusion has become the only representative HCI vendor (Sample vendors) selected as a Chinese vendor
Based on Gartner's direction and profound insight into the demand for VMware user replacement, Shenxin provides a full range of products and solutions such as "virtualization → hyper converged resource pool → private cloud" to accurately adapt to different stages of user needs. In addition to achieving comprehensive substitution, we also assist users in completing cloud platform upgrades.
Among them, in the tactical selection of hyper converged infrastructure, Shenxin became the only Chinese vendor selected among HCI representative vendors (Sample vendors).
Sample vendors and products:
Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP), Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI, Scale Computing HyperCore (HC), StorMagic SvHCI, StarWind HCI Appliance
Next, let's decode the three core capabilities of Deep Trust in VMware alternatives together——
Integrated solutions are a 'must-have' for alternative solutions
The Gartner report clearly states that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are exploring different virtual machine monitoring programs and facing end-of-life infrastructure, seeking to implement an integrated hardware and software solution with unified management capabilities. ”
From the perspective of the three major Vmware alternative solutions from DeepTrust——
In terms of virtualization capabilities, there is not only benchmarking, but also surpassing. Computational virtualization has achieved 123 out of 139 commonly used functions in comparison to VMware in terms of basic capabilities. Its hardware sub-health capabilities cover fault prediction and fallback for CPU, memory, motherboard, RAID card, disk, power supply, etc. It is on par with VMware in terms of capabilities; Exceeding VMware products in terms of performance in hot upgrade (update), hot migration (vMotion), hot patching, HA, and other capabilities.
The hyper converged resource pool solution integrates the four major components of computing virtualization (aSV), storage virtualization (aSAN), network virtualization (aNET), and security virtualization (aSEC) to form a unified resource pool. Benchmarking against commonly used VMware features, covering the main usage scenarios, while maintaining the same functional requirements. Provide users with a stable, reliable, high-performance, secure, effective, intelligent, and convenient business infrastructure.
In terms of private cloud replacement solutions, a lightweight private cloud solution with hyper converged architecture will be built starting from 3 nodes, providing lightweight cloud management services, supporting unified resource management of hybrid clouds with the same architecture, and assisting users in cloud upgrading. Provide containers for users AI、 Rich service catalogs such as database management and intelligent operation and maintenance services enable advanced substitution and smooth evolution and upgrading.
Reduce migration difficulty and accelerate the migration process
Gartner points out that hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) is highly similar to the VMware product stack, significantly reducing the difficulty of skill learning, alleviating cultural resistance, and simplifying deployment and migration processes. ”
Deeply convinced by the concept of hyper integration, we have created a VMware replacement solution that minimizes user changes and minimizes replacement costs, providing users with a smooth, efficient, and secure migration experience.
Maintain user habits unchanged.
Comprehensively benchmark VMware in terms of solutions and components, product features, and usage habits. Deeply convinced that SDDC can 100% benchmark against VMware components and achieve same position replacement; Comprehensively benchmarking against VMware solutions, maintaining the existing IT architecture construction and operational model unchanged; Benchmarking against commonly used VMware features, covering the main usage scenarios, while maintaining the same functional requirements; Provide a consistent operating method with VMware and retain users' original usage habits; Providing 236 PowerCLI commands similar to VMware, keeping operational habits unchanged, greatly reducing technical learning costs, shortening adaptation cycles, and truly achieving "zero threshold migration" and "efficient transition".
Maximizing the reduction of substitution costs.
At the level of ecological compatibility, the cloud platform fully adapts to the requirements of innovation and reduces selection and renovation costs; Realize software and hardware decoupling, widely compatible with various ecosystems, and reduce the cost of software and hardware reuse and adaptation; Agent free backup is deeply integrated with mainstream backup vendors such as Veeam and Aishu, meeting the smooth transition needs of users for VMware virtualization migration.
During the migration process, provide full process migration tools, solutions, and services, support non-stop migration, and increase efficiency by 50%; Pioneering the intelligent risk assessment function before migration, significantly reducing migration risks.
Balancing the present and the future, supporting future business innovation
The Gartner report suggests that modern platforms should be selected based on factors such as assessing long-term feasibility.
Deeply convinced that "future oriented elastic architecture" is the core, paving the way for users' long-term digital evolution in advance:
Empowering online and offline. Through 'connected cloud', local hyper converged users can obtain high SLA guarantees and various advanced digital capabilities and services such as cloud native and AI from the cloud, achieving 'offline enjoyment of cloud capabilities'. At the same time, continuous online updates of capabilities can ensure that IT infrastructure is always synchronized with technological evolution, continuously unleashing digital productivity.
Accurately anticipate AI needs. Without the need to refactor the architecture, the hyper converged cluster can smoothly upgrade from a traditional hosting platform to an intelligent computing platform by adding one GPU node, quickly responding to the computing power needs of large models such as DeepSeek, and helping users efficiently embrace the AI era.
In the wave of VMware replacement, users have also voted in favor of convincing alternative solutions with practical actions:
In the financial field, Guojin Securities has joined hands with Shenzhen Zhongxin to deploy 23+hyper converged clusters based on Kunpeng ARM, Haiguang C86 and other architectures in the five DCs of the two cities, laying a stable foundation for dozens of business systems and accelerating the process of upgrading the entire business system.
In intelligent manufacturing, Jianghuai Automobile uses TrustCloud as its cloud base and has expanded to 276C, smoothly migrating its core business from VMware environment to provide solid support for intelligent factory production applications.
In the medical field, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital adopts the Shenxin hyper fusion architecture to carry the core system and achieve technological substitution.
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As of now, Shenxin has successfully assisted over 12000 users in achieving advanced upgrades. And relying on a scalable underlying architecture design, it always resonates with user needs, empowering users to stay at the forefront of the technological wave and embrace future business innovation with ease.
