When evaluating VMware alternatives for virtualization and enterprise cloud infrastructure, security should be a top priority. Modern platforms need to protect workloads across virtual machines (VMs), containers, and emerging AI applications while simplifying operations.

Key security features to consider include:

• Network Security (Microsegmentation): Fine-grained traffic isolation between workloads using distributed firewalls and label-based policies to enforce Zero Trust principles.
• Permission Management: Robust identity and access control with role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (2FA), SSO, and LDAP/AD directory integration.
• Runtime Security: Strong VM and container isolation to safeguard against lateral movement and runtime threats.
• Operations & Monitoring: Real-time visibility into security policies, traffic flows, and audit logs for proactive threat detection and compliance.
• Data Encryption: Volume-level encryption with AES-256 and external KMS integration to secure data at rest.
• Data Storage Security: Strong backup and disaster recovery capabilities to protect data from corruption or loss.

Named a sample vendor in the 2025 Gartner® A Guide to Choosing a VMware Alternative in the Wake of Broadcom Acquisition, Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP) delivers a comprehensive, integrated security approach designed for modern hybrid infrastructure:

• Arcfra Cloud Operating System (ACOS), as the core foundation of AECP, provides HA protection tailored for VMs, disks, nodes, racks, and data centers intra-city and cross-city. It also adopts volume-level data encryption powered by the AES-256 algorithm for fortified data security protection in the virtualization environment.
• Arcfra Network Service (ANS) offers microsegmentation (distributed firewall), load balancing, and VPC features. It also supports unified security policy management and real-time network traffic visualization across both virtualization and containerized environments.
• Arcfra Operation Center (AOC) centralizes identity and access management (e.g., fine-grained RBAC, 2FA, SAML-based SSO, and LDAP/AD support), network security policy management, monitoring, logging, alerting, traffic visualization, and non-disruptive upgrade on an easy-to-use GUI.
• Arcfra Kubernetes Engine (AKE) secures container workloads with runtime isolation, Zero Trust policy enforcement, and ANS-based microsegmentation. Full-stack observability and visual workload topology enhance security visibility across Kubernetes clusters.
• Arcfra Backup and Disaster Recovery (ABDR) ensures continuous data protection for VMs and containers, with backups, replication between sites, and rapid failover capabilities for business continuity.

For more information on AECP as a VMware alternative:

• Arcfra Operation Center vs. VMware vCenter for Centralized VM and Cluster Management
• Arcfra Virtualization Engine vs. VMware vSphere: Higher Availability with Optimized Performance
• Arcfra Kubernetes Engine vs. vSphere with Tanzu: A Feature-by-Feature Comparison
• Arcfra Network Service vs. VMware NSX: Comparable Capabilities, Streamlined Management

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