The Server Virtualization Landscape Is Changing

The server virtualization market has gone through significant changes since the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, and enterprises and partners  are challenged with reevaluating their options. Rising costs, required licensing changes, and SKU consolidations have created uncertainty at a time when IT leaders need flexibility, predictability, and scalability.

Organizations are now looking for a modern, cost-effective alternative that replaces legacy virtualization solutions, while supporting a path to the cloud.

Oracle Virtualization: A proven enterprise-grade server virtualization solution

Oracle Virtualization, powered by Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, provides an open, enterprise-grade virtualization platform built on Oracle Linux KVM technology. It enables customers to lower costs, simplify operations, and modernize their infrastructure without vendor lock-in.

Key advantages include:

  • Cost efficiency – No licensing cost. Simple, per server Oracle Linux Premier Plus Support subscription.
  • Enterprise-grade features – Live migration, storage live migration, high availability, and advanced workload scheduling.
  • Broad compatibility – Support for Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, SLES, Ubuntu, Solaris, and Windows operating systems.
  • High scalability – Manage up to 1,024 compute hosts and 10,000 VMs from a single pane of glass.
  • Cloud integration – Open APIs, compatibility with oVirt, KVM hypervisor, and support for cloud native workloads.

For customers, this means a high-performance, secure, and future-ready server virtualization layer that can run critical databases, applications, and next-generation services – on-premises or on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

RackWare: Extending Mobility and Resilience

RackWare’s Cloud Mobility and Resilience Platform makes it easy to migrate from legacy infrastructure to Oracle Virtualization for seamless discovery and replication. It supports P2V, V2V, and cross-hypervisor migration without agents or manual conversions. Users benefit from smooth automation, license cost reduction, and infrastructure flexibility.

Virtualization alone is not enough. Enterprises also need a way to protect workloads cost-effectively and without friction. RackWare Disaster Recovery goes beyond infrastructure recovery with full-stack protection, including OS, application, data, and configuration, helping enable rapid and predictable failover.

With RackWare, organizations gain:

  • Any-to-any migration – Move physical, virtual, and container workloads efficiently across on-premises, OCI, and other public clouds.
  • Converged disaster recovery and backup – Automated replication, failover/fallback, ransomware recovery, and non-disruptive DR testing.
  • Policy-driven automation – Streamlined migrations and DR workflows with minimal downtime and reduced operational complexity.
  • Continuous assessment and optimization – Right-sizing, cost optimization, dependency mapping, and ongoing health checks.

The result: enterprises can exit VMware with confidence, modernize faster, and maintain resilience across hybrid and multicloud environments.

A Smarter Path Forward

When combined, Oracle Virtualization and RackWare Migration & Resilience deliver unique joint value – including:

  • Seamless VMware exits – Minimize disruption and accelerate time-to-value with RackWare’s agentless migration, while Oracle Virtualization provides a cost-effective destination with support for core server virtualization features.
  • Built-in resilience – DR and backup are embedded into the same platform, reducing risk and strengthening cyber recovery posture.
  • Future-ready architecture – Open, scalable, and cloud-aligned, positioning IT organizations to modernize on their own terms.

This joint solution empowers IT teams to cut costs, avoid lock-in, and protect workloads, all while embracing a hybrid or multicloud strategy.

Start Your Journey

Enterprises worldwide are actively searching for ways to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and modernize IT without compromising performance. Oracle and RackWare make that journey possible.

Learn more by viewing our joint webinar or schedule a Migration & Resilience Assessment with Oracle or RackWare today.