SUSE Rancher vs. VMware ESXi
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 SUSE Rancher | Score7.9 out of 10 | N/A | Developed by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost… | $7,594.99 per year up to 500 nodes |
 VMware ESXi | Score7.6 out of 10 | N/A | A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs. | N/A |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | 9.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Usability | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| Availability | - | 10.0 |
| Performance | - | 9.0 |
| Support Rating | 6.8 | 10.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Configurability | - | 10.0 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | 4.5 | 5.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 10.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 10.0 |