Harvester
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Visit| Fact | Harvester | VergeOS |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Harvester installs directly on bare-metal servers from a bootable ISO; new installations starting with v1.8 require UEFI boot. | VergeIO lists bring-your-own-hardware, certified partner appliances, and bare metal at a hyperscaler or colocation facility as deployment options. |
| Product | Harvester is open-source hyperconverged infrastructure for bare-metal servers, combining virtualization and distributed storage. | VergeOS is a private cloud infrastructure operating system that combines compute, storage, networking, data protection, and automation in one code base. |
Harvester suits teams running VMs, Kubernetes in VMs, bare-metal containers, or edge workloads on supported server hardware. It is for users who can deploy and manage bare-metal infrastructure.
VergeOS is aimed at midmarket and enterprise IT teams and the partners serving them. It fits environments using bare-metal x86 hardware and virtualized workloads.