Future-ready virtualization for education
An open-source platform that meets all your virtualization and VM management needs — affordable, reliable, and aligned with the spirit of academic collaboration.
Universities and colleges need modern infrastructure that is simple to operate, fits tight budgets, and reflects the values of openness that drive academic research and teaching. Vates VMS, built on XCP-ng, Xen Orchestra, and XOSTOR, delivers everything needed to virtualize and manage campus workloads in one coherent, open-source stack.
“By leveraging Vates VMS, we've created meaningful, hands-on opportunities for students working in our Security Operations Center—enabling them to develop and deploy real-world solutions that support the university’s IT needs.”
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Complete virtualization and management
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Affordable and predictable
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Open source at heart
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Easy to deploy and operate
Complete virtualization and management
Vates VMS combines XCP-ng, Xen Orchestra, and XOSTOR to provide everything an academic institution needs to virtualize and manage servers and VMs. It simplifies lab setups, central IT services, and research workloads in one consistent stack.
For IT teams that want extra insight into capacity and usage trends, the optional Easyvirt suite integrates with Vates VMS to support long-term planning and optimization without adding complexity.
Affordable versus proprietary alternatives
Universities face strict budgets and rising costs. Our straightforward per-host subscription avoids CPU/RAM taxes and tiered pricing, often at a fraction of the cost of proprietary stacks like VMware.
Because Vates VMS runs efficiently on a wide range of x86 servers, institutions can keep using existing hardware longer instead of being forced into premature refresh cycles.
The predictable, per-year licensing model makes budget planning simple, even as workloads grow or change. Paired with the optional Easyvirt suite, IT leaders gain better visibility into resource consumption and can align future investments with actual needs.
Supports the academic mission through open source
A fully open-source virtualization stack means institutions gain transparency, reproducibility, and long-term control over infrastructure.
Students and staff learn on tools widely used in industry and can inspect and understand the technology they work with, reinforcing the spirit of knowledge sharing.
Easy to deploy and manage
A web-based Xen Orchestra interface simplifies daily operations — VM lifecycle, backup policies, and health checks — letting small IT teams efficiently support a wide range of labs and academic services.
Practical information for
campus IT
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Migration from legacy hypervisors
Tools and documentation for smooth bulk migration from VMware.
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Training & support
Optional instructor-led training plus commercial support, backed by an active open-source community.
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Flexible storage
Works with NFS, iSCSI, FC/HBA and pretty much any storage type; can also run hyper-converged with XOSTOR.
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Built-in backup & monitoring
Xen Orchestra’s web interface includes native backup, health checks, and automation.
“Vates VMS lets us streamline our stack and cut complexity while keeping the features that matter for uptime and performance.”
User stories
The Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center (CHSCC) at the University of Washington successfully transitioned their VMware 7 virtual infrastructure to Vates VMS. The migration process, completed over the past few months, has been handled in a fast and efficient way. An experience we are happy to share today.
Bring open-source virtualization to your campus.
Ready to explore Vates VMS for your campus?
Whether you want to start a trial, run a proof-of-concept, evaluate your migration path, or simply ask a few
questions, our team is here to help you move forward.
