Vates VMS is a French open-source hypervisor for on-premises, hybrid, and edge infrastructures. Developed by French company Vates, it combines XCP-ng (a type 1 Xen-based hypervisor, hardware agnostic and compatible with any x86 hardware) and Xen Orchestra (a web-based management, administration and backup interface). With no proprietary licensing costs, Vates' business model is built entirely on professional support and services.

Vates is a French open-source software company founded in 2012 in Grenoble. With a team of over 80 people, Vates develops the Vates Virtualization Management Stack (Vates VMS), an open-source virtualization platform designed for on-premises, hybrid, and edge infrastructures, and positioned as an alternative to VMware. Vates VMS combines two components:

• XCP-ng: a type 1 hypervisor based on the Xen project, hosted by the Linux Foundation. Compatible with x86 hardware, XCP-ng supports enterprise datacenters as well as distributed and edge deployments.
• Xen Orchestra: a web-based, agentless management, administration, and backup interface for XCP-ng, capable of managing virtual infrastructure at any scale.

Together, XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra cover the full lifecycle of virtual machines, including deployment, orchestration, backup, and disaster recovery.

The stack includes additional components: XOSTOR for hyperconverged storage with high availability, XO Proxy for backup in large or multi-site infrastructures, and XO Lite for single-host management.

All source code is publicly available on GitHub.

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Vates' business model is based on professional support and services rather than proprietary licenses.

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