vSphere Escape Pod From Maxta

Maxta Inc. announced new functionality that enables organizations to migrate VMs from VMware ESXi to Red Hat Virtualization and to run both hypervisors on the company’s hyperconvergence software.

This ability to move some or all VMs to a fully-supported, but still open source virtualization solution helps organizations reduce or eliminate the VMware tax by choosing the hypervisor that best fits the needs of an application. The company’s solution is a hyperconverged solution in that supports VMware and Red Hat Virtualization.

While all hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are designed to help simplify IT management by converging separate compute, storage, and storage networking tiers into a single system as well as administering VMs instead of storage, many of these solutions lock customers into specific hardware or hypervisors. The firm’s hyperconvergence software can help customers eliminate the lock-in of server hardware or hypervisors, and also facilitates the movement to open source virtualization. The choice of any brand of standard x86 server and different hypervisors can offer organizations an upper hand when negotiating with server or virtualization vendors.

“We are pleased that Maxta not only supports Red Hat Virtualization with its Hyperconvergence Software, but also provides tooling that enables customers to migrate VMs from vSphere to Red Hat Virtualization,” said Rob Young, manager, virtualization product and strategy, Red Hat, Inc. “This empowers customers with choice and enables them to take advantage of open source economics and feature velocity backed by enterprise grade quality and support.“

“We chose Maxta because their software approach to hyperconvergence enabled us to use our own hardware, upgrade storage capacity within each server, and not have to repurchase the software license whenever we refreshed our servers,” said Larry Chapman, manager, IT, Trusource Labs. “This new ability to migrate VMs from VMware ESXi to Red Hat KVM now gives us a choice in every aspect of hyperconvergence infrastructure including servers, hypervisors, and even disk drives.“

“Red Hat Virtualization is a data center virtualization solution that offers extensive VM lifecycle management functionality including deployment, configuration, and decommissioning of VMs,” said Terri McClure, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Maxta’s support of Red Hat Virtualization gives organizations of all sizes a choice of two industry commercially hardened and fully supported virtualization solutions while Maxta’s new ability to migrate to Red Hat Virtualization delivers the ability to choose.“

“Organizations and MSPs are looking more and more for a software approach to hyperconverged infrastructure to avoid vendor lock-in and avoid having to repurchase the HCI software license when they refresh server hardware,” said Yoram Novick, founder and CEO, Maxta. “While there are a number of hyperconvergence vendors in the market, only Maxta supports the top two virtualization platforms in the market today – VMware and Red Hat. Our new Red Hat Virtualization migration functionality is designed to make it simple for organizations and MSPs to take advantage of this choice in hypervisors and avoid paying the VMware tax.“