EvoCloud vs VMware
EvoCloud aims to provide an open-source alternative to VMware, with built-in composable components, runtimes, and orchestrators.
EvoCloud vs VMware
EvoCloud provides great support - you can choose a support plan according to your needs, but for many use cases our Level 1 Support plan will be all you need.
| Features | EvoCloud | VMWare |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free and Open-Source (MPL-2.0) | Subscription-based, Proprietary license |
| Primary Focus | Sovereign Cloud, Secure Intranet/Private Cloud, Internal IDPs | Software Defined Datacenter, Private Cloud |
| Service support | Guides/Community & Enterprise Paid Support | Enterprise Paid Support |
| Resilience & Backups | ||
| Minimum uptime | 99.5% | 99.9% |
| Automated daily VM snapshots | — | 2 daily snapshots |
| Automated remote backups (Borg) | ||
| External backups (S3) | ||
| Manual backups | ||
| Dedicated VM per service | ||
| Priority queuing | ||
| Retention | 7 days retention | 14 days retention |
| Software & Infrastructure | ||
| Language/Framework support | Limited | Standard (Node, Python, PHP) |
| Database options | SQLite | Postgres & MySQL |
| Scalability | Single instance | Horizontal scaling (manual) |
| Deployment & Maintenance | ||
| CI/CD integration | Manual deploys only | GitHub/GitLab pipelines |
| Zero-downtime deployments | — | Basic rolling updates |
| Monitoring & alerts | Community docs | Basic alerts (email) |
| Security | ||
| SSL/TLS certificates | Self-signed | Auto Let's Encrypt |
| Access control | Single user only | Basic team roles |
| Compliance | — | Compliance |
