# Aurakore Virtualization > Server virtualization and private cloud on hardware the customer owns, from Aurakore IT Solutions. An alternative to VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Nutanix AHV. Virtual machines, live migration, high availability, automatic balancing, distributed storage that is never metered, Kubernetes and an AI gateway, managed from one console and API. Every change is written to a tamper-evident ledger, and the platform runs fully disconnected. Status words used below: Generally available = proven on hardware. Preview = in the current release, being confirmed on hardware. Coming = not in the current release. Aurakore Virtualization is sold by quote through Aurakore sales; there is no self-serve purchase. ## Editions - Aurakore Compute Standard (ACS): the essential hypervisor; VMs on each host's local disks; up to three hosts. Preview. Comparable to vSphere Standard or NCI Starter. - Aurakore Enterprise Compute (AEC): adds Aurakore SAN distributed storage, high availability (automatic restart behind fencing) and automatic balancing; predictive evacuation is coming. Generally available. Comparable to VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or NCI Pro. - Aurakore Enterprise Compute for Desktops (AEC-D): a hypervisor for VDI under the customer's own connection broker; desktop-only (desktop pools plus up to 16 infrastructure VMs per cluster); includes Aurakore SAN, live migration, high availability and balancing; Aurakore Perimeter as an add-on. Coming. Comparable to NCI-VDI. - Aurakore Cloud & AI Platform (ACP): Enterprise Compute with Aurakore Perimeter and Aurakore Resilience included. Coming. Comparable to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) or NCI Ultimate. ## In every edition - Live migration of running VMs (Generally available; Preview on Compute Standard, where local disks move with the VM) - Kubernetes clusters on platform VMs (Preview) - Aurakore AI Gateway: models and tools for apps and agents, local models first, outside models only for allowed groups (Preview) - MicroVMs picked at deploy beside full VMs (Coming) - Aurakore Console and API, Aurakore AI plain-language assistant, Aurakore Insight, audit ledger (Generally available) ## Add-ons - Aurakore Perimeter: microsegmentation, intrusion prevention, web application firewall, load balancing. Add-on to every edition, or on its own; included in ACP. Generally available; guest DNS filtering is in Preview. - Aurakore Resilience: restore points, locked off-site copies, replication and failover to a second site. Add-on for AEC; included in ACP. Coming. ## Facts - Aurakore AI, the plain-language assistant, runs on the appliance with an open-weight model on the customer's hardware. It needs no internet connection and works fully air-gapped; questions, answers and cluster data stay on the appliance. An outside model or the hosted console is used only if the customer switches it on, and each is recorded in the ledger. - Storage capacity is never metered, tiered or capped. - No standing vendor access: the hosted console cannot reach into an appliance; requested changes run only after the appliance's owner approves them. - Moving to Aurakore: with an Aurakore Virtualization order of at least one year (first year paid before the migration starts), the migration is at no charge (remote; VMware vSphere workloads only) and the VMware perpetual licenses in the migration plan get six months of free independent third-party support while they move, extendable up to twelve months for larger programs (break-fix and guidance, not Broadcom patches; Standard plan service, up to five tickets). Full terms: https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/migration#terms. Enterprise customers get a dedicated support contact by email or phone. Every support engineer has six or more years of experience with VMware and other virtualization platforms and is VCF certified; some hold Broadcom VCF Knight status. Terms on the quote. - Sold by quote, sized to the cores the customer runs. Independent support for VMware perpetual licenses is available today: https://aurakore.ai/vmware-support - Contact: sales@aurakore.com ## Pages - [Aurakore Virtualization: VMware and Nutanix Alternative](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization): Private cloud on your own servers: VMs, Kubernetes, live migration, high availability, storage never metered. An alternative to VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV. - [Virtualization Platform: VMware and Nutanix Alternative](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/platform): Hypervisor, Aurakore SAN (a vSAN alternative), live migration, high availability and Kubernetes on your servers. An alternative to VMware VCF and Nutanix. - [Virtualization Editions: VMware and Nutanix Alternative](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/editions): Editions that replace vSphere Standard, VMware vSphere Foundation, VCF and Nutanix NCI, plus a VDI hypervisor, with Kubernetes in every edition. - [Compare Editions: an Alternative to VMware and Nutanix](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/compare): Compute Standard and Enterprise Compute side by side, an alternative to VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV, with what is proven on hardware and what is in preview. - [Virtualization Console: vCenter and Prism Alternative](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/management): One console and one API for every host, an alternative to VMware vCenter and Nutanix Prism, with a hosted view of every site and owner-approved changes. - [Migrate from VMware or Nutanix](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/migration): Plan a move off VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV on your own timeline: an assessment sized to your workloads, and support for the VMware estate you run now. - [Talk to Sales](https://aurakore.ai/virtualization/contact): Ask for an evaluation of Aurakore Virtualization on your own hardware and a migration assessment from VMware or Nutanix.