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XCP-ng (Vates)

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XCP-ng is an open-source virtualization platform stewarded by Vates SAS.

Founded 2018Free open-source (Community); Vates commercial
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About XCP-ng (Vates)

XCP-ng is an open-source virtualization platform stewarded by Vates SAS.

Best For: Organizations actively migrating away from VMware due to Broadcom licensing changes

Key Features

  • Open-source Xen-based hypervisor
  • Vates-stewarded
  • VMware-exit positioning
  • growing post-Broadcom adoption

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Genuinely free and open-source
  • benefits from the same VMware-exit wave driving Proxmox adoption
  • mature Xen hypervisor foundation

Cons

  • Requires more hands-on Linux/Xen expertise than VMware
  • smaller commercial ecosystem than enterprise incumbents

Pricing

Free open-source (Community); Vates commercial support subscriptions

MSP Partner Program

Yes MSP Partner Program Available

Vates partner program: subscription support tiers for providers, actively courting MSPs amid the VMware/Broadcom licensing disruption.

Multi-Tenancy

Yes Multi-Tenant Architecture Supported

Integrations

Common backup tools (Veeam support)Terraformbasic RMM hooks

Technologies Used

Open-sourceXen-based virtualization

Keywords

virtualizationxcp-ngvmware alternative

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Company Details

Founded
2018
Industry
Computer Software
Pricing
Free open-source (Community); Vates commercial support…
Best For
Organizations actively migrating away from VMware due to Broadcom licensing changes
MSP Partner
Yes Partner Program
Multi-Tenancy
Supported
Website
xcp-ng.org