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What is Virtualization Software?
Virtualization software enables the creation and management of virtual machines (VMs) that emulate physical computers. By abstracting the underlying hardware, it allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine, improving resource utilization and flexibility. Virtualization provides an isolated environment for applications, increasing security and stability by preventing conflicts between different software systems. It also simplifies the management of IT infrastructure, as virtual machines can be easily created, cloned, and moved between different hosts. This technology is crucial for businesses looking to scale their operations, optimize resource usage, and improve disaster recovery processes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Virtualization software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ConnectWise Automate
ConnectWise
Solve IT problems at the speed of business with ConnectWise Automate. A robust remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, ConnectWise Automate helps boost the effectiveness of IT teams. It offers teams the ability to discover all devices and users that need to be proactively monitored, remove delivery roadblocks, and support more endpoints without adding headaches or head count. -
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ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine
ManageEngine OpManager is an effective virtualization management tool that provides comprehensive monitoring and management of virtual environments, including VMware and Hyper-V. It tracks the performance and health of virtual machines, hosts, and clusters, offering insights into resource utilization, capacity planning, and workload distribution. With real-time alerts and automated reporting, OpManager helps IT teams identify potential issues and optimize virtual infrastructure for enhanced performance and efficiency. Its intuitive dashboards and visualization features simplify the management of complex virtual environments, ensuring seamless operation and resource allocation.Starting Price: $95.00/one-time -
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Delska
Delska
Delska (former DEAC European Data Center & Data Logistics Center) is a carrier-neutral data center and network provider in Northern Europe with 25 years of experience delivering reliable, personalized IT and network solutions in cloud computing, colocation, data security, network, and more. We own five data centers (one under construction, launching in 2025) in Riga and Vilnius, along with points of presence in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Stockholm. For quick IT infrastructure deployment in Riga, Vilnius and Frankfurt, we have created the self-service myDelska cloud platform. It offers fast, secure, and scalable solutions and, in the summer of 2025, along with the VM management, will also offer bare metal servers. Delska data centers stand out for their energy efficiency, operating at PUE under 1.3 and powered entirely by green energy. Our upcoming Tier III-certified, 10 MW data center in Riga will exemplify green construction.Starting Price: €10 -
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phoenixNAP
phoenixNAP
phoenixNAP is a global IaaS provider delivering world-class infrastructure solutions from strategic edge locations in the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australia, and Latin America. Specializing in performance, security, and availability, the company provides vastly redundant systems, unsurpassed security, high-density deployments, and flexibility to service from ¼ cabinets to private cage environments. Its Bare Metal Cloud solution provides access to 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for advanced infrastructure performance and reliability. phoenixNAP offers a 100% uptime guarantee, an extensive server lineup, global connectivity options, flexible SLAs, and 24x7x365 live support to help businesses achieve their business objectives. Deploy high-performance, scalable cloud solutions for your growing IT needs, along with the security and reliability that you require at opex-friendly pricing plans.Starting Price: $0.10/hour -
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ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.Starting Price: $395.00/Year -
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Inuvika OVD Enterprise
Inuvika
Our virtual desktop solution, OVD Enterprise, delivers Windows and Linux apps and desktops (VDI) to any device. Built on Linux, it reduces Windows licensing requirements, needs less infrastructure and reduces total costs by up to 60% compared to Citrix or VMware Horizon (Omnissa). Microsoft SQL Server licenses are not required. It can be deployed on-premises or through any cloud provider. OVD is also available as a service through our network of Managed Services Providers. Migration from Citrix or Horizon is easy. OVD Enterprise integrates with today's leading enterprise standards, including any directory service, storage or hypervisor. Key Features: -Deliver Windows and Linux apps and desktops -Use any device - macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS/Android, Chromebook, Raspberry Pi, or any HTML5 Web browser. -Full multi-tenancy support -Full USB redirection -Integrated Two-Factor Authentication -Integrated secure gateway allows for secure remote access. No need for NetScalerStarting Price: $8.55/concurrent user/month -
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V2 Cloud
V2 Cloud Solutions
V2 Cloud offers powerful, secure, and fully managed virtual desktops accessible from anywhere. Our platform is purpose-built for Independent Software Vendors, Managed Service Providers, IT professionals, and business owners looking to streamline operations, improve security, and scale efficiently. With V2 Cloud, you can easily start your desktops and apps in the cloud, enabling secure remote work from anywhere. Plus, you can access fully managed IT services, proactive security, and responsive support to scale effortlessly. Get the business resiliency you need! Boost your performance with the GPU-enhanced virtual machine and start working with heavy applications without crashes. Enjoy fast and professional support with global multilingual support. Discover how simple and cost-effective desktop virtualization can be with V2 Cloud. Try it today!Starting Price: $40 per month -
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Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Hornetsecurity
VM Backup (formerly Altaro VM Backup) is an award-wining virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. It is used by 40,000+ businesses worldwide. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers, IT consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality. It’s characterised by ease of use, speed and affordability. With its WAN-Optimized Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP), you can achieve minimal RPO and RTO, i.e., drastically reduce the length of time your virtual machines are down and the amount of data lost when disaster strikes – to just minutes. Virtual machine backup and replication software packed with powerful features for Hyper-V and VMware.Starting Price: $595.00/one-time -
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Citrix DaaS
Cloud Software Group
Enable secure, flexible work with the leader in virtual apps and desktops. Deliver desktop as a service (DaaS) from any cloud or data center. Get started with Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) in minutes to provide a familiar, high-performance digital workspace experience to your users. We’ll manage the infrastructure and security. You focus on your business. Meet the needs of your modern workforce—and keep sensitive data secure. Citrix DaaS lets you provide a secure workspace experience on any device. It’s all the cost benefits of a managed DaaS solution, plus the added advantages of greater IT agility, better corporate security, and more end-user productivity. Keep apps and data protected while fueling employee productivity. Build a better business continuity plan with easy-to-scale workspace solutions. Simplify virtual app and desktop delivery with proven DaaS solutions.Starting Price: $12 per user per month -
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Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft
Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features. Bring your own device (BYOD) and access your desktop and applications over the internet using an Azure Virtual Desktop client such as Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or HTML5. Choose the right Azure virtual machine (VM) to optimize performance and leverage the Windows 10 and Windows 11 multi-session advantage on Azure to run multiple concurrent user sessions and save costs. -
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Serial to Ethernet Connector
Electronic Team, Inc.
Serial to Ethernet Connector is a stable software product developed by Electronic Team Inc. and has been available commercially for over a decade. The application lets you create multiple virtual COM ports on a machine with no physical serial interfaces. This virtual serial port redirector enables you to access the functionality of multiple remote serial devices over the network. You system’s capabilities are the only limit on the number of virtual ports you can create with this COM port redirector utility. It transmits serial data over the Ethernet from your computer to network-attached serial devices.Starting Price: $259.95/1 machine at a time -
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Nerdio
Adar
Empowering Managed Service Providers & Enterprise IT Professionals to quickly and easily deploy Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, manage all environments from one simple platform, and optimize costs by saving up to 75% on Azure compute and storage. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise extends the native Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 admin capabilities with automatic and fast virtual desktop deployment, simple management in just a few clicks, and cost-optimization features for savings of up to 75% – paired with the unmatched security of Microsoft Azure and expert-level Nerdio support. Nerdio Manager for MSP is a multi-tenant Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 deployment, management, and optimization platform for Managed Service Providers that allows for automatic provisioning in under an hour (or connect to an existing deployment in minutes), management of all customers in a simple admin portal, and cost-optimization with Nerdio’s Advanced Auto-scaling.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Virtual Serial Port Driver
Electronic Team, Inc.
Virtual Serial Port Driver is a system utility by Electronic Team that emulates a serial port and pairs it with another virtual serial port via a virtual null modem cable. All ports created with the help of the software completely emulate serial port settings exactly like real ones, and support HandFlow control and signal lines. This makes virtual serial ports visible to an operating system, which recognizes them as “standard” hardware serial ports. All data sent to one virtual COM port immediately appears in the other one and vice versa. Once a virtual serial port pair is created, users can find the ports in Device manager. They are available for use on system startup, even before logging in to the system. Users developing their own applications can integrate a Virtual Serial Port Driver (DLL, ActiveX, or Core level usage) into their software to create and manage virtual COM ports directly from it.Starting Price: $139.95 -
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Virtuozzo
Virtuozzo
Virtuozzo, is a global leader in alternative cloud enablement, providing unique, purpose-built software which enables infrastructure and platform solutions to over 600 service providers around the world. Performance, flexibility, and ease of use define the product line up. Our partners can quickly, cost effectively and profitably create alternative private, public, hybrid or multi-clouds, rivalling those from major cloud providers, but with greater ROI, and customization. Service providers and enterprises can choose between various products and capabilities, using software defined networking, storage and powerful compute management and monitoring. Virtuozzo’s primary products allow for the rapid construction of virtual private servers (VPS), IaaS, PaaS, Storage-as-a-Service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, WordPress-as-a-Service and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS). -
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Parallels RAS
Parallels
Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) is a remote work solution that provides secure virtual access to business applications and desktops on any device or OS—from anywhere. The platform offers an agile, cloud-ready foundation and end-to-end security fueled by a centralized management console with granular policies. Companies can leverage on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud deployments and integrate with existing technology like Microsoft Azure and AWS. Parallels RAS aims to give organizations the flexibility, scalability, and IT agility to adapt to changing business needs. Parallels RAS offers a single, full-featured licensing model that includes 24/7 support and access to product training.Starting Price: $120 US/year/concurrent user -
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Platform9
Platform9
Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our platform uniquely combines ease of use with flexibility, integrating seamlessly with existing storage and server infrastructure as well as other enterprise platforms. With automated migration tools, open APIs, and flexible deployment options—self-hosted, air-gapped, or SaaS—Platform9 gives you the freedom to run your private cloud, your way. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It delivers a familiar management experience for virtualization teams—with the ability to run VMs and containers side by side—and enterprise-grade features including High Availability, live migration, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, Software Defined Networking, Self Service, and secure multi-tenancy. Hundreds of enterprises, including Rackspace Technology, Cloudera, and Juniper Networks use Platform9 today. -
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WorkDesk
SquareOps
Work From AnyWhere, AnyTime & AnyDevice. Enable remote working by using cloud windows desktop which provides a seamless remote work experience to your teams on the cloud with high security, low-cost & scalabilty, ensuring business continuity. Virtual Cloud Desktops comes with Advanced Threat Protection on Windows 2019 Edition. Great Features. Manage end to end WorkDesk that can provide everything you need for seamless remote work to continue with a click of few buttons. No Upfront Cost. Pay-Per-Use model where you pay for only what you use, hourly cost is billed. Choose Any Configuration. Upgrade or Downgrade a system configuration based on your need's with one click. Secure Access. Comes with In-build feature of secure access & can be modified to meet the requirements. Cloud Storage. Data is stored on cloud,therefore it is secure & available anytime from any device. Ease Of Use. Everything happens with click of button & NO manual intervention is required.Starting Price: $10 per user, per month -
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Barracuda SSL VPN
Barracuda
Your army of road warriors and remote workers require a quick, flexible, reliable and completely secure way to connect to your internal enterprise applications, information and network resources. They want to do this from anywhere in the world, at any time and from any suitable device. The Barracuda SSL VPN provides the security and connectivity to deliver this access, via a web browser or virtually any mobile device. The Barracuda SSL VPN makes it easy for remote users to access internal applications and files. Unlike traditional VPN technologies, the Barracuda SSL VPN does not require any additional client software or complicated settings. Logging in from home or the road requires only a web browser and Internet connection. Upon login, users are presented with a portal of internal web applications or file shares. More advanced applications like Remote Desktop Services or Citrix XenApp are available to users running Java. -
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DataCore SANsymphony
DataCore Software
Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility. -
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OneIQ
OneIQ
Harness the convergence of AI and human intelligence to make better IT decisions. OneIQ workspaces create transparency between IT professionals, technology advisors and suppliers to reach consensus on Hybrid IT decisions. This shared visibility into insights and data means that infrastructure recommendations can get approved and implemented faster. Leverage cross-platform visibility and collective expertise to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Empower your teams with AI-driven insights to optimize Hybrid IT infrastructure. Avoid costly availability and performance issues by adapting IT infrastructure ahead of time. Accelerate your Hybrid IT initiatives by building stronger relationships with your technology advisors and suppliers. Share only relevant IT asset information by using visibility controls for each IT environment connected to a workspace.Starting Price: $9 per workload per month -
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We are the creators of Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC). This world-renowned software enables Digital Forensic Investigators to view a suspect’s machine in its native environment without turning the original device on, therefore preserving crucial metadata. Widely used by various law enforcement agencies all over the world, VFC is ‘an essential tool’ in every Computer Forensic Investigator’s toolbox. Founded in 2003 by a former Head of the Digital Forensics Unit of the National Crime Squad, MD5 LTD is a UK leading provider of Digital forensics & eDiscovery services. Our digital investigation services are widely used by various organizations including corporate businesses, law enforcement, and government agencies, the legal sector, forensic accountants, and insolvency practitioners. MD5’s forensic laboratory continues to investigate the business world’s ever-changing digital environment.Starting Price: $1000 per year
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ORBIT VirtuaControl
ORBIT
ORBIT VirtuaControl guarantees the availability of all applications in the physical or virtualized IT infrastructure and controls user behavior. Clearer desktop, more efficient collaboration. Monitoring of company software and user load. Central delivery and management of all applications. Security against unprofessional intervention. Saving time when managing user environments. At ORBIT, our service team is at the forefront of making sure that our customers’ IT runs reliably. Long-term service contracts with our customers are not a goal, but a means to improve our services. That is why ORBIT VirtuaControl was created. With ORBIT VirtuaControl, you get an extremely practical assistant that guarantees the availability of all applications in the physical or virtualized IT infrastructure and controls user behavior. ORBIT VirtuaControl is what clients want it to be. We are improving proven features and saying goodbyes to unused ones. -
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Actifio
Google
Automate self-service provisioning and refresh of enterprise workloads, integrate with existing toolchain. High-performance data delivery and re-use for data scientists through a rich set of APIs and automation. Recover any data across any cloud from any point in time – at the same time – at scale, beyond legacy solutions. Minimize the business impact of ransomware / cyber attacks by recovering quickly with immutable backups. Unified platform to better protect, secure, retain, govern, or recover your data on-premises or in the cloud. Actifio’s patented software platform turns data silos into data pipelines. Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) delivers full-stack data management — on-premises, hybrid or multi-cloud – from rich application integration, SLA-based orchestration, flexible data movement, and data immutability and security. -
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Scale Computing Platform
Scale Computing
SC//Platform brings faster time to value in the data center, in the distributed enterprise, and at the edge. Scale Computing Platform brings simplicity, high availability and scalability together, replacing the existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running VMs in a single, easy-to-manage platform. Run your applications in a fully integrated platform. Regardless of your hardware requirements, the same innovative software and simple user interface give you the power to run infrastructure efficiently at the edge. Eliminate mundane management tasks and save the valuable time of IT administrators. The simplicity of SC//Platform directly impacts IT with higher productivity and lower costs. Plan the perfect future by not predicting it. Simply mix and match old and new hardware and applications on the same infrastructure for a future-proof environment that can scale up or down as needed. -
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Nomadesk
Nomadesk
Business File Sharing & Synchronization software that allows your professional customers to edit, share, synchronize and secure files from anywhere, online and offline! Nomadesk creates encrypted, virtual hard drives on your computer – “Vaults”. Place your files in a Vault and they are automatic. Retention of multiple versions; cloud-based trashcan, datacenters in Brussels and Frankfurt. Your files are made accessible via any smartphone, tablet; encrypted cache with remote wipe.Invite others to your Vaults for collaborating on files; use the Nomadesk widget to automatically publish content on your website; share file links via the Outlook plugin. Through our Office 365 integration, you can effortlessly view, edit and collaborate simultaneously on Office files from any device. You wish to market a scalable, business file sharing and sync solution without the operational hassle. Start building recurring revenue!Starting Price: $7.50 per month -
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MidoNet
MidoNet
MidoNet is an Apache licensed production grade network virtualization software for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. MidoNet decouples your IaaS cloud from your network hardware, creating an intelligent software abstraction layer between your end hosts and your physical network. This network abstraction layer allows the cloud operator to move what has traditionally been hardware-based network appliances into a software-based multi-tenant virtual domain. MidoNet brings production-grade distributed overlay networking to OpenStack. Features such as reduced complexity of physical network, high availability (any server, any network service, any time), scalability through hierarchy, reduced protocols, otimized network traffic with minimal overhead, vastly improved fault tolerance. -
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Ensure the security of your workloads, simplify regulatory compliance, and guarantee data sovereignty with IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization. A trusted cloud infrastructure must be able to answer these questions for corporate oversight, security, and compliance. A customer wants to create an environment where administration, workload execution, and data access are constrained to a particular geo-location with full audit capabilities. During deployment, identify the firmware configurations you will allow and the hypervisor configurations you have approved. Accurately identify each physical host and its physical location, creating a snapshot or fingerprint of each trusted host's launch configuration. This is stored in an allowlist. If the measurements of a host's BIOS and hypervisor match the measurements stored in the allowlist, the boot environment is attested. The host launches into a state that is considered trusted.
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IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server software enables early and frequent testing in the development lifecycle. It removes dependencies by virtualizing part or all of an application or database, so software testing teams don’t have to wait for the availability of those resources to begin. Reduce the cost of deploying and configuring complex application environments. Achieve agility and predictability with continuous integration testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Integrate with IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management, which provides collaborative testing. Virtualization capabilities range from data-driven and correlated response sequences to full stateful database emulation. A centralized repository of virtualized environments means you can reuse, deploy and change the environment configuration to test different scenarios. IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server offers all the features in IBM Rational Performance Test Server to help validate app performance.
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AWS Nitro Enclaves
Amazon
AWS Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory isolation for EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most sensitive data processing applications. Enclaves offer an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications. Nitro Enclaves includes cryptographic attestation for your software, so that you can be sure that only authorized code is running, as well as integration with the AWS Key Management Service so that only your enclaves can access sensitive material. -
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IBM PowerVC
IBM
IBM PowerVC is an OpenStack-based virtualization management solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of virtual machines across IBM Power Systems running AIX, IBM i, and Linux. It offers rapid deployment capabilities, reducing time-to-value through straightforward installation and configuration processes. The intuitive user interface minimizes the need for specialized training, enhancing administrator productivity. PowerVC facilitates efficient resource utilization by enabling resource pooling and implementing placement policies, thereby optimizing IT costs. The Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) provides policy-based automation for active workload balancing within host groups, ensuring optimal performance. VM templates support consistency and standardization, streamlining deployments and reducing labor costs. Key features include automated I/O configuration for mobility and high availability, and seamless import and deployment of workload images.
