Harvester - A More Modern Alternative to Proxmox As a HCI
(2024-06-25):After Broadcom increased the license fees, other virtualization alternatives become very popular. While I previously already evaluated various virtualization platforms, including Proxmox, as well as other solutions that are based on FreeBSD, such as bhyve-webadmin (BVCP), and ClonOS there are of course also several other ones and it is worth noting another noteworthy option in the landscape of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Harvester is an innovative, open-source HCI platform that is built atop of Kubernetes, offering a cloud-native approach to infrastructure management. It is tailored for operators who are in search of an open-source HCI solution that can seamlessly integrate with their existing systems. Harvester is engineered to be deployed directly on bare metal servers, where it provides a combination of virtualization and distributed storage functionalities. This solution is not limited to managing traditional virtual machines, it also embraces the containerization trend by facilitating containerized workloads through its integration with Rancher. .... [read more]