#1 most frequent
United States of America
68.1%32 installations of 47
What is SUSE Harvester?
Suse's Harvester is a cloud-native hyperconverged infrastructure. It is used to unify infrastructure workloads with Harvester and is designed to help operators consolidate and simplify their virtual machine workloads alongside Kubernetes clusters. Harvester is presented as a next generation of open-source hyperconverged infrastructure solutions designed for modern cloud-native environments. Suse Harvester is open source and free to use.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses SUSE Harvester
#2 most frequent
France
4.3%2 installations of 47
#3 most frequent
Switzerland
4.3%2 installations of 47
SUSE Harvester is a great virtualization platform
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use SUSE Harvester to provision virtual machines, which later form SUSE Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters. We chose Harvester because it's +) Stable and production ready; +) Open source; +) Backed up by a strong community and stable and cloud solutions-oriented company - it won't disappear in one day; +) Easy to use.
Pros
- Fast to deploy new virtual machines
- It's easy to use
- Stable and ready for production
- Free and open source
- Has a strong community
Cons
- It takes expertise to set up SUSE Harvester for production
- You need to get used to SUSE Harvester to be as "fluent" as in VMWare ESXi
- You need to well prepare for system upgrades
Return on Investment
- We can provision more virtual servers
- It's cheaper than competitor products (tbh - it's free, if you don't need support)
- It's easy to manage when you get used to it
Alternatives Considered
VMware ESXi
Other Software Used
VMware ESXi, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure