By Chris Mellor
Publication Date: 2026-02-09 14:20:00
Switzerland-based NexaVM has an all-in-one VMware replacement suited for mid-market and regional CSPs, sovereign cloud, and local integrators.
It says it’s a a European-led virtualization and private-cloud platform positioned as a modern alternative to VMware environments, with a production-grade hypervisor, integrated software-defined storage, Kubernetes services, and multi-tenant cloud management in a single stack, with a strong focus on MSPs and service providers building sovereign or regional cloud offerings. It provides vSAN-style hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) storage, providing block (Ceph), file, and object (S3) services, with erasure coding and multi-interface I/O paths, as well as having support for external storage connected by NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NVMe.
The nexaVM SW stack includes native multi-tenancy, quotas, metering, and REST APIs, and service catalog use cases. There is a cloud control plane with integrated Kubernetes-as-a-Service and Private AI-as-a-Service, and a VMware migration facility. We wondered how NexaVM differentiates itself from other VMware migration targets such as Nutanix and VergeIO.
Sales Manager Manuel Minzoni told us: “Nutanix and others are highly capable platforms, particularly in global enterprise HCI estates. Our experience is simply that nexaVM is frequently selected where customers prioritize usability and TCO, automation, sovereignty, and predictable…
