Organizations looking to migrate from VMware can rely on FishOS by Sardina Systems, trusted cloud management platform, powered by OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph.
Cut licensing costs and ensure regional compliance by migrating from VMware to FishOS, a reliable foundation for private and hybrid cloud environments.
FishOS is trusted by clients across 12 countries on all continents for over a decade.
We have developed and managed clouds for healthcare, research and scientific centers, telecommunications, the financial sector, and many others.
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Explore the trends in the cloud migration and dive into the seamless transition to OpenStack.
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How VMware Compares to FishOS – Overview
| FishOS | VMware | |
|---|---|---|
| License model | Single Unified Annual Per-core license with full features access | VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere Enterprise Plus, vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), vSAN Enterprise, Aria Suite Enterprise, NSX Enterprise Plus |
| Platform type | Open-sourced, enterprise-graded | Proprietary |
| Hypervisor | KVM | ESXi - license check |
| Storage | FishOS Ceph | vSphere SDS |
| Web UI interface | Advanced Horizon: GUI configurable according to the user requirements | Enterprised developed interface |
| Dashboard | Modified dashboards with customer customization and branding | User-friendly GUI |
| Backup and recovery | FishOS Cannery | vSphere Data Recovery |
| Security | Neutron | vShield |
| Container orchestration | Magnum | Not available |
| VM live migration | KVM Live Migration | vMotion |
| Resource control | FishOS Workload Solution | Not available |
| High availability | Included | Optional, vSphere HA |
| Accounting | FishOS Billing | Optional, vCenter Chargeback Manager |
Migrate from VMWare to OpenStack in 5 simple steps with FishOS Move It
Move It will manage the planning and help migrate from VMware to FishOS, regardless of your system type and size.
01 Preparing resources
Move It Migrator VM sets up necessary resources such as volumes, ports, disk sizes, networks, etc., and creates a migration plan in the format of a YAML file.
02 Downloading VM files
Transferring the virtual disk files from the source system.
03 Converting files
Converting virtual disk files into a format compatible with OpenStack.
04 Writing to volumes
Storing converted files Cinder volumes within OpenStack.
05 Launching the VM
Utilizing volumes and ports to launch the virtual machines in the new OpenStack environment.
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Organizations That Trust FishOS
Sybyl’s mission is to promote the latest and best of breed technologies to the IT market of East Africa. With FishOS, we provide our customers with a highly efficient tool for managing their private cloud with a top-level of security, data sovereignty and scalability. The cloud solution from Sardina Systems meets all the industry standards and expectations. Our company is glad to offer FishOS to the enterprises and help them to grow the business and become real market leaders.
Director Cloud Services at Sybyl (Kenya)

FishOS private cloud has enabled Incarta to provide clinical and business users with flexible, secure, and reliable self-service cloud computing services. It has revolutionized Incarta’s ability to scale storage and compute high volumes of data, and to deliver clinical insights through augmented and predictive intelligence that could have only been imagined just a few years ago.
Co-Founder and Director at Incarta (Australia)

Sardina brought to the de.NBI cloud a lot of knowledge and many services when configuring OpenStack, creating proper concepts on high availability and workload balancing. It is not so easy to build up the expertise and operate the system safely and resiliently without years of experience.
Head of High Performance and Cloud Computing Group at Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen (Germany)
The solution provided by Sardina makes running OpenStack on-premise an easy task. Running our cloud on the DKRZ site helps us process and analyze vast amounts of data produced by the supercomputer Levante, preventing the transfer of tremendous amounts of data across the world. Competency and cost-efficiency are far ahead of its competitors.
Head of Systems Department at DKRZ





