Harvester is an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure platform from SUSE for running virtual machines and containers on bare-metal servers. It is built on Linux, KVM, Kubernetes, KubeVirt for virtualization, and Longhorn for distributed block storage, managed from a single web interface. It targets teams modernizing away from proprietary HCI and VMware stacks, in the data center and at the edge, and integrates with Rancher for Kubernetes management. The software is free under Apache 2.0 with no license fees; SUSE sells enterprise support subscriptions.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2020
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Private cloud / virtualization
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Hypervisor
- KVM (KubeVirt)
- Hyperconverged
- Yes
- Management UI
- Yes
- Live migration
- Yes
- HA clustering
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes: Free and open source (Apache 2.0); optional SUSE support subscriptions.