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The article mentions several VMware alternatives:

  - RedHat OpenShift (k8s)
  - Scale Computing HC3
  - Wind River Cloud 
  - public cloud providers

Any other alternatives?

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Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.

When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.

> rock-solid

Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common

Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..

If you're looking at small self hosting then Proxmox.

That’s where my IT department said they’re headed the other day.

Proxmox is an amazing alternative

in no particular order:

- HPE morpheus VM Essential

- Apache Cloudstack

- Platform9

...

Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?

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