Hitachi Vantara Offers vSAN Replacement For VMware Migrants
Hitachi Vantara, October 1,2025
Hitachi Vantara is trying to attract wannabe VMware leavers by providing vSAN replacement with VSP One and vSphere with Red Hat OpenShift.
The background to this is, of course, Broadcom's acquisition of VMware and its subsequent VMware licensing changes. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (RHOSV) uses the open source KubeVirt control plane to integrate Kubernetes container orchestration with server virtualization using the KVM hypervisor. OpenShift itself is a commercial platform. The idea is to migrate VMware systems over to RHOSV, using KubeVirt, and enable containerized app development and support as well, with VSP One providing the underlying storage needed and replacing vSAN. It features a unified data storage offering for block, file, and object storage across on-premises systems and the public cloud.