The Certified Integration Unifies Virtual Machine and Container Management with Open Source Choice
Atlanta
ATLANTA – November 11, 2025 – SUSE Virtualization is now certified in the Portworx Enterprise (PXE 3.5) release, announces SUSEⓇ, a global leader in enterprise open source solutions. This integration creates a pre-certified, validated solution for both SUSE Virtualization and SUSE Rancher Prime that establishes a unified, cloud native platform to manage both virtual machines and modern containers simultaneously.
The joint offering provides enterprises with a powerful, 100% open source alternative to costly, proprietary virtualization solutions, directly addressing the rising costs and operational complexity of siloed IT infrastructure.
"This strategic partnership targets the $162 billion virtualization market, giving Global Fortune 2000 CIOs a 100% open source alternative to proprietary solutions," said Peter Smails, SVP, General Manager, Cloud Native at SUSE. "We are delivering a robust, certified, unified cloud native platform that reinforces SUSE Rancher Prime's leadership in hybrid IT infrastructure."
"Our customers are demanding a path to modernization without a costly rip-and-replace strategy. By combining SUSE Virtualization with Portworx's cloud native, software-defined storage, we are delivering exactly that—a unified infrastructure stack that eliminates the operational and cost silos between VMs and containers," said Venkat Ramakrishnan, vice president and general manager, Portworx by Pure Storage. "It gives customers vendor independence, cost optimization, and the flexibility to modernize at their own pace, all while ensuring their mission-critical applications remain secure, available, and fully managed across any environment."
Key benefits of this certified joint solution include:
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Simple, Unified Management: The solution builds virtualization on SUSE Rancher Prime, the cloud native platform of choice, to unify the management plane. This allows organizations to run VMs and containers side-by-side on a single, efficient platform, which significantly reduces operational overhead and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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VMware Modernization: This acts as a bridge, allowing customers to move their existing VM investments onto a modern, cloud native foundation. Customers can modernize their applications at their own pace while expanding the ability to leverage their existing storage investment.
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Enterprise Resilience for All Workloads: Customers get consistent, robust data protection for all workloads. The certified solution supports both synchronous and asynchronous disaster recovery for VMs, which means near-zero data loss for their most important applications.
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Streamlined Operations: The combination streamlines operations by enabling self-service storage provisioning and automated capacity management. This can reduce manual storage work by up to 99 percent.
The joint solution specifically offers high performance and scalability for deploying high-density, performance-sensitive stateful workloads, leveraging the Kubernetes-native foundation. This integration is also key to supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments, providing a consistent experience and centralized management for applications and data across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments.
About SUSESUSE is a global leader in enterprise open source software across Linux operating systems, Kubernetes container management, Edge solutions and AI. The majority of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to provide resilient infrastructure, enabling IT leaders to optimize cost and manage heterogeneous environments.
SUSE collaborates with partners and communities to provide organizations with choices to maximize their current IT systems and innovate with next-generation technologies across traditional on-premises, to cloud native, multi-cloud to edge and beyond. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
