The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has disrupted enterprise IT operations due to an aggressive shift toward subscription licensing. This makes developing a VMware migration strategy essential for organizations. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the nine best VMware alternatives for 2026.

When a customer system became unresponsive and failed to boot, we quickly uncovered the cause: a fatal exception that sent our core operating system into an unrecoverable state. As operating system providers, that's our signal to stop everything and act because when the core system breaks, every workload built on top fails. In this post, I'll walk through how we diagnosed the issue, traced it back to a drifted kernel version, and what we've done since to lock critical packages and prevent this failure from reoccurring.

OpenStack Live Migration and Nova Host Evacuation: What They Are and When to Use Them Production infrastructure cannot afford unplanned downtime, but with OpenStack, it doesn't have to. OpenStack's live migration feature moves running virtual machine instances from one compute node to another within the same cluster. This keeps services available while the underlying hardware or software is maintained. The Nova compute service orchestrates this process and extends it further through host evacuation, which is a mechanism designed to recover workloads from compute nodes that have become unreachable or failed entirely.