Virtualization is one of the core consolidation components of modern data centers, yet it can require significant upfront investment and recurring licensing costs.

However, changing licensing models and rising infrastructure costs are driving many organizations to evaluate alternative virtualization platforms.

With open-source virtualization solutions, organizations can:

• Virtualize physical servers,
• Build centralized cluster architectures,
• Ensure High Availability,
• Perform live virtual machine migration,
• Use shared storage,
• Create backup and disaster recovery architectures.

At OrbisEngine, we can design your virtualization infrastructure end to end, starting from the physical server layer.

The architecture can include:

• Compute,
• Network,
• Storage,
• Cluster,
• High Availability,
• Backup,
• Replication,
• Monitoring.

Assessment and transformation plans can also be developed for migrating existing VMware vSphere, Hyper-V Cluster, or standalone physical server environments to open-source virtualization platforms.

Would You Like to Reassess Your Virtualization Licensing and TCO Costs?

By analyzing your existing virtualization infrastructure, we can provide a technical and financial comparison of open-source and hybrid alternatives.

Significantly lower operational and licensing costs, reduced hardware dependencies, easier access to support, broad ecosystem compatibility, and the elimination of mandatory license renewals — turn all these advantages into real business value for your organization. See industry reviews for cost alternatives.

Before making the transition, build the right feasibility study.

Manage Virtual Machines and Container Platforms Together

Legacy applications, Windows Server systems, custom applications, and specific database architectures may continue to operate as virtual machines. However, migrating every application to a container environment may not be feasible for all organizations.

For this reason, modern infrastructure strategies are rarely based solely on a “VM or container” approach.

Both architectures often need to operate together.

By using open-source container and virtualization technologies, organizations can manage:

• Containerized applications,
• Linux virtual machines,
• Windows virtual machines,
• Legacy applications

within the same modern infrastructure strategy.

OrbisEngine can analyze your organization’s application portfolio and create a hybrid transformation approach that identifies which systems should run as virtual machines and which should operate on container platforms.

Run every workload on the right platform.

How Does OrbisEngine Approach Open-Source Projects?

A successful open-source project should begin with solution planning based on actual business and technical requirements.

Our approach at OrbisEngine consists of the following core stages:

1. Current-State Assessment

The existing server, network, storage, security, and application infrastructure is evaluated.

2. Requirements and Risk Analysis

The organization’s actual requirements, capacity needs, and operational risks are identified.

3. Architecture Design

Compute, network, storage, security, backup, and High Availability layers are designed as an integrated architecture.

4. Proof of Concept and Pilot Deployment

When required, a controlled test environment is created to validate the proposed solution.

5. Installation and Integration

The platform is deployed and integrated with the existing IT infrastructure.

6. Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

The implemented system is documented, and knowledge is transferred to internal IT teams.

7. Operational Optimization

Monitoring, capacity, security, and performance requirements are evaluated on an ongoing basis.

Let’s Design the Right Open-Source IT Architecture for Your Business

Whether your goal is to reduce licensing costs, modernize your existing infrastructure, or evaluate migration options toward open-source technologies, the first step is an accurate assessment of your current environment.

With OrbisEngine, you can:

• Assess your existing IT infrastructure,
• Identify technical and financial risks,
• Compare suitable open-source alternatives,
• Build a Proof of Concept environment,
• Design the production architecture,
• Implement installation and integration.

Contact OrbisEngine Today for an Open-Source Transformation Assessment

Let’s evaluate your existing infrastructure, business objectives, and technical requirements together. Let us contact you via an e-mail.

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