SUSE vs VMware:

• Date: donderdag 6 augustus 2026
• Time: 3:00 pm CEST / 9:00 am EDT
• Duration: 60 Minuten

The enterprise virtualization landscape has changed dramatically. Recent licensing shifts and soaring subscription fees have left organisations searching for a stable, high-performance path forward. If you feel trapped by proprietary hypervisors, you aren’t alone – but you don’t have to stay there.

In this webinar, SUSE Virtualization Expert, Alejandro Bonilla, breaks down how SUSE Virtualization (powered by Harvester) delivers a modern, 100% open-source alternative to VMware vSphere.

Instead of maintaining separate silos for your legacy virtual machines and modern cloud-native applications, you will learn how to bridge the gap completely. SUSE Virtualization allows you to run both VMs and containers side-by-side using Kubernetes-native architecture (KubeVirt), managed through a single, intuitive interface.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• The True Cost of Lock-in: How switching to an open-source model eliminates unpredictable, soaring licensing fees while lowering your overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Bridging the Infrastructure Divide: How to bring VMs and containers under one roof using SUSE Rancher, eliminating operational silos and specialised tooling.
• Frictionless Migration: A step-by-step look at migration toolkits (like Coriolis) that allow you to lift-and-shift workloads from VMware vCenter with zero downtime.
• Enterprise Reliability without the Price Tag: How built-in high availability, distributed storage (Longhorn), and native node management deliver production-grade resilience.

We’ll close with a live Q&A so you can put your strategic and technical questions to us directly.

Whether you are an IT infrastructure manager trying to balance a tightening budget, a DevOps engineer looking for a unified control plane, or a business leader aiming to future-proof against proprietary platform changes, this session will provide clear, actionable insights.

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