When transitioning from VMware, selecting an alternative platform with strong Operations & Maintenance (O&M) capabilities is essential to ensure efficient management and long-term scalability. Key features to evaluate include:

• Automated Cluster Provisioning: Streamlined, template-based cluster deployment with support for batch node management to reduce manual effort.
• Rolling Upgrades: Ability to upgrade clusters, hypervisors, and management components without downtime, ensuring continuous business availability.
• Observability: Built-in monitoring, logging, and alerting with real-time visualization of traffic flows and resource utilization to simplify troubleshooting.
• Unified VM and Container Management: Single-pane-of-glass platform that manages both VMs and Kubernetes clusters, avoiding fragmented tools and inconsistent policies.

As a sample vendor in the 2025 Gartner® A Guide to Choosing a VMware Alternative in the Wake of Broadcom Acquisition, Arcfra offers an integrated platform designed to simplify O&M while enhancing operational efficiency:

• Automated Lifecycle Management: Rapid cluster creation, scaling, and teardown with minimal manual configuration.
• Non-Disruptive Upgrades: Once an upgrade task is submitted to the Upgrade Center, the entire upgrade can proceed without any manual intervention, while ensuring the cluster’s operations remain uninterrupted.
• Full-Stack Observability: Unified dashboard with performance metrics, health checks, and log analytics covering compute, storage, networking, and containers.
• VM-Container Converged Operations: Manage VMs and containers side by side with shared networking and security policy management UI.

By providing these capabilities out of the box, Arcfra enables enterprises to replace VMware with a platform that is easier to operate and better suited for hybrid workloads.

For more information, please refer to：

Arcfra Operation Center vs. VMware vCenter for Centralized VM and Cluster Management

What are the Alternatives to VMware vCenter for Centralized Virtual Machine Management?

Can Open-Source VM Management Tools Effectively Replace VMware vCenter?

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