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Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great! Otherwise, prepare to invest in other ways. I'm not going to say VMware has a super intuitive system, but I've gotten surprisingly far at times without a lot of deep knowledge. Well, until the *nix-like kernel in the hypervisor misbehaves....

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> Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great!

If you know (say) Ubuntu and Ansible, then there's pretty good automation with openstack-ansible and kolla-ansible. There are a number of moving parts, but an intermediate-level Linux sysadmin can get things going without too much difficulty. There are vendor-provided solutions (e.g., from RH) as well if you don't want to do a fully DIY, or want commercial support.

* https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/

At a previous job we had a team of 4-5, and 1.5 FTEs split their time between our HPC cluster and our OpenStack cluster (20+ hypervisors, ~10 Ceph servers; >350 VMs/instances).

If you have any significant workload on vmware you likely already have an expert on payroll.

The setup is not too complicated with something like https://opendev.org/openstack/devstack

devstack is for dev work, expect nothing to persist.

If you want a deployment choose something like openstack-ansible.

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