ZStack
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What both publish
| Fact | ZStack | ZSvirt |
|---|---|---|
| API | The product provides a native RESTful API and documentation for development with HTTP-supported languages. | ZSvirt 1.0.0 documents a RESTful API with definitions for all APIs and more than 2,000 REST/OpenAPI endpoints claimed on the product site. |
| Audience | ZStack describes its offerings as cloud infrastructure for enterprises and lists industry solutions including education, energy, manufacturing, finance, telecom, healthcare, and government. | ZSvirt is presented for users ranging from homelab operators to hyperscale infrastructure teams and organizations moving away from VMware. |
| Integrations | ZCF can manage public-cloud resources and work with platforms such as Alibaba Cloud; its network virtualization is based on OVN/OVS. | The site lists SDKs for Go, Python, and Java, native Terraform providers, GitOps, and 2,000+ REST/OpenAPI endpoints. |
| Limits | ZStack Cloud Standard is available only in selected regions. | The site describes the open-source edition as having no VM limit and no license fee. |
| Product | ZStack Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service platform for managing compute, network, and storage resources in data centers. | ZSvirt is an open-source virtualization platform based on ZStack’s ZSphere virtualization engine. |
| Security | ZStack's security solution lists virus protection, access control, intrusion detection and prevention, virtual patching, integrity monitoring, and log auditing. | Listed security features include a Native Key Provider, VM SecureBoot, vTPM 2.0, VM encryption, security groups, MFA/2FA, and immutable audit logs. |
| Storage | ZStone provides block, file, and object storage, with optional replication or erasure coding and support for existing SAN, NAS, and shared block storage. | Storage capabilities include primary and backup storage, volumes, snapshots, image storage, local storage, NFS, SAN and distributed storage. |
ZStack plans
- ZStack CloudFree
- ZStack ZSphereFree
ZSvirt plans
- ZSvirt Open SourceFree
- Contact vendorPriced on request
- Plus licensePriced on request
Pick ZStack if…
ZStack is for enterprises managing infrastructure in data centers, including organizations building private clouds. Its stated audience includes organizations with high compliance, security, stability or performance requirements.
Pick ZSvirt if…
ZSvirt suits self-hosting users ranging from homelab operators to large infrastructure teams, including organizations moving away from VMware. The open-source edition may suit users who can rely on community support rather than vendor-backed production support.