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Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone hyper-visor based virtualization product which includes Live migration.

🚨 Microsoft Hyper-V Server has been discontinued
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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Hyper-V Server

oVirt OpenStack virt-manager QEMU XCP-ng Xen OpenNebula Vagrant UTM Apache CloudStack

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Hyper-V Server are oVirt, OpenStack, and virt-manager. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    oVirt is a virtualization management application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions

  2. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions

  3. The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 64 social mentions

  4. 4
    QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions

  5. 5
    A fully open source and community backed alternative, with all current commercial features enabled...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 37 social mentions

  6. 6

    Xen

    Xen Project: Open Source Hypervisor, High Performance Clouds, Free Software, Open Source Virtualization, Open Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Mobile Virtualization, Embedded Virtualization.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions

  7. OpenNebula is an Open Source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform to build & manage Enterprise Clouds. OpenNebula provides unified management of IT infrastructure, avoiding vendor lock-in & reducing complexity, resource consumption, & operational costs 🚀
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $2500.0 / Annually ( Unlimited CPUs, Cores, VMs. Plus €200 ($250) per managed node )

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 7 social mentions

  8. Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtual Machine Management #IT Automation #Development Tools 4 social mentions

  9. 9

    UTM

    Run virtual machines on iOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 social mentions

  10. CloudStack is an open source cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #VPS #Cloud Computing #VPS Hosting 5 social mentions

  11. A complete web UI for controlling a XenServer or Xen infrastructure.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 3 social mentions

  12. Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions

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