Introducing SkyVirtHCI

Every infrastructure team we talked to over the last two years told a version of the same story. The virtualization layer worked fine — and the bill for it kept growing, the feature they needed had moved into a higher tier, and somewhere along the way they had stopped feeling like they owned their own infrastructure.

SkyVirtHCI is our answer. It's a hyperconverged platform: you install it on ordinary servers, and those servers become a private cloud — virtual machines, replicated storage, software-defined networking, backup, disaster recovery and a management console, in one product, from one installer.

What we optimised for

Three things, in this order:

1. Owning it should mean owning it. No phone-home, no per-core meters, no feature editions. Air-gapped installs are the default posture, not an exotic configuration.
2. Day 2 over day 1. Demos are easy; year three is hard. Rolling upgrades with preflight checks, rehearsable disaster recovery, immutable backups and capacity forecasting are in the product because that's where platforms actually fail.
3. Leaving should be easy too. The same migration connector that imports your VMs from other platforms documents how to get them back out. Confidence beats lock-in.

Where it runs

Commodity x86 servers — one node for a lab, three or more for production. The download page has the modest requirements, and the getting-started guide takes about fifteen minutes per node.

If you're comparing platforms, we wrote the comparisons we'd want to read — VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox and oVirt — including the parts where the honest answer is "test it yourself".