Exploring VMware alternatives

Rethinking VMware? Manage whatever comes next.

Your infrastructure strategy shouldn’t depend on one vendor.

Whether you stay on VMware, migrate to another platform, or build a hybrid environment, CloudBolt helps you automate and govern infrastructure across platforms without vendor lock-in.
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Ready to move away from VMware?

Your VMware decision is just the beginning

Wherever your infrastructure goes next, your teams still need a consistent way to provision resources, enforce governance, and operate at scale.

Stay on VMware

Continue running VMware where it makes sense while improving self-service, governance, automation, and operational consistency.

Move beyond VMware

Transition workloads to new infrastructure without forcing your teams to reinvent how infrastructure is requested, provisioned, and managed.

Build a hybrid environment

Manage infrastructure across VMware, public cloud, private cloud, and alternative virtualization platforms through a consistent operating model.

THINGS TO CONSIDER

VMware is changing. Your operating model doesn’t have to.

Organizations evaluating their VMware strategy are dealing with more than a licensing decision.

  • Rising costs, changing terms, and reduced flexibility are pushing teams to reconsider platforms they’ve relied on for years.
  • More platforms can mean more tools, more workflows, and more ways for governance to slip.

  • The organizations that come out ahead give teams real infrastructure choice without losing control.

Diagram outlining things to consider when moving away from VMware. Things like rising costs, vendor lock-in, infrastructure changes, operational complexity, and governance
HOW CLOUDBOLT CAN HELP

Change the infrastructure. Keep the experience consistent.

CloudBolt creates an abstraction and orchestration layer across your infrastructure so teams don’t have to build a completely different operating model for every platform.

Underneath, whatever mix of VMware, AWS, Azure, private cloud, or alternative virtualization you’re running connects through a single control plane. On top, your teams keep the same self-service provisioning, reusable blueprints, governance and guardrails, role-based access, day-2 operations, and automation — no matter what’s changing beneath them.

How CloudBolt works

Diagram showing how CloudBolt can be a unified abstraction layer that allows users orchestrate numerous clouds and tools as they look to move away from VMware.

Modernize infrastructure without starting over

CloudBolt helps you separate the infrastructure your workloads run on from the processes your teams use to manage it.

Standardize provisioning

Give teams a consistent way to request and provision infrastructure across different environments.

Automate across platforms

Build reusable workflows and blueprints instead of recreating automation for every infrastructure platform.

Maintain governance

Apply policies, permissions, approvals, and guardrails across your hybrid environment.

Preserve flexibility

Adopt new infrastructure platforms over time without locking your operating model into any single vendor.

Lobster Data

“What we got in return from CloudBolt unlocked way more than we ever expected.”

Ludwig Müller

Cloud Engineering Team Lead, Lobster

Read the Lobster Data story

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Faster provisioning

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Scaled delivery

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Reduction in manual work

VMware Cloud Foundation 9

Planning your move to VCF 9?

VCF 9 brings major changes to VMware’s management architecture, upgrade path, and the role of Aria. See what the transition requires, where the risks are, and what options you have before making the move.

Read our VCF 9 guide

Diagram of how CloudBolt can be the abstraction layer for VMware migration.
CloudBolt Industry Insights

How 300+ It professionals are getting ahead of the Broadcom squeeze

Broadcom isn’t losing sleep over your churn; they planned for exactly this. Their strategy was never to keep every customer. It was to maximize value from those still on the platform while the market slowly diversifies.

This report examines where 300+ IT decision-makers stand two years into the Broadcom era—what they expected, what actually happened, and what they’re doing about it.

Read the full report
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NEXT STEPS

Your infrastructure strategy shouldn’t depend on one vendor.

Whether VMware remains part of your environment or you’re actively moving workloads elsewhere, CloudBolt gives your teams a consistent way to manage infrastructure across what comes next.

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CII: The Mass Exodus That Never Was

Worried about the Broadcom VMware acquisition? You’re not alone. Learn how 300+ IT professionals are dealing with the aftermath.

 
Blogs

Navigating the VMware Acquisition: A Pragmatic Approach to Migration in the Broadcom Era

Introduction: I received a text from a former colleague and friend out of the blue today that read “I guess VMware is officially dead now that they’re just part of the Broadcom portfolio”. I had already started to write this article, but his sentiments really hit home with what I was feeling throughout the process […]

 
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VMware Acquisition Aftermath

CII Reality Report VMware Acquisition Aftermath Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 has created a seismic shift in the virtualization and cloud market. With significant changes in licensing, support, and partnership programs, IT leaders are facing crucial decisions under tight deadlines. Our latest research report, CII Reality Report: VMware Acquisition Aftermath, takes […]