SUSE Harvester is a great virtualization platform
December 15, 2022
SUSE Harvester is a great virtualization platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SUSE Harvester
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.
- Fast to deploy new virtual machines
- It's easy to use
- Stable and ready for production
- Free and open source
- Has a strong community
- 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
- 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
We used ESXi for years and were happy with it. Then we implemented Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters with nodes provisioned on VMware ESXi. Later, when SUSE Harvester came out, we started to provision SUSE Rancher nodes on Harvester. Both VMware ESXi and SUSE Harvester are great products, and I think - we are keeping both, at least for now, when SUSE Harvester is a young project.
Do you think SUSE Harvester delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SUSE Harvester's feature set?
Yes
Did SUSE Harvester live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SUSE Harvester go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SUSE Harvester again?
Yes