Huawei DCS Named a Leading VMware vSphere Alternative by DCIG

SHENZHEN - The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG), a leading global technology research and analysis firm, has listed Huawei DCS in its 2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise VMware vSphere Alternatives Global Edition Report. Huawei DCS earned plaudits for its leading advantages in terms of light weight, elasticity, high performance, high availability, and full stack management platform, according to the official website of Huawei. 

The report offers a detailed analysis of 24 solutions from different vendors, including purchase recommendations, and spotlights five outstanding products that provide significant advantages for enterprise data center virtualization.

In this year’s report, DCIG notes four advantages of Huawei DCS:

• Light weight and elasticity: Huawei DCS allows an enterprise to start with a deployment of as few as two nodes, and supports elastic expansion as the enterprise grows.
• High performance: Huawei DCS employs advanced hardware passthrough technology to shorten network forwarding paths between VM nodes, ensuring excellent performance and hardware utilization.
• High availability: With multiple replication technologies—such as synchronous and asynchronous replication, mirroring, and continuous snapshots—DCS guarantees high system availability and near-zero downtime for recovery and failover.
• Full stack management: Huawei DCS offers centralized resource management and control, streamlining configuration and fault location. Its preset service dashboard provides a comprehensive resource overview and customizable components for efficient end-to-end topology and workload analysis.

Huawei DCS has been a key player in the virtualization market for over 15 years, facilitating digital transformation through innovative technologies.