Mastering SUSE Harvester: THE VMWARE ALTERNATIVE FOR CLOUD-NATIVE HCI: Build Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Kubernetes and KubeVirt. VM Management

By CASSIAN SMITH

Build production ready cloud native HCI with SUSE Harvester on Kubernetes and KubeVirt

Traditional VMware centric virtualization is under pressure from licensing changes, cloud native expectations and the need to run both VMs and containers on the same platform. Many teams want to move toward Kubernetes first infrastructure without losing the operational reliability they have built on vSphere.

Mastering SUSE Harvester: The VMware Alternative for Cloud Native HCI gives you a complete, realistic path from bare metal hosts to a fully managed Harvester stack with Rancher, Longhorn and KubeVirt. You learn how to design, install and operate an HCI platform that can host legacy VMs, modern Kubernetes workloads and advanced PCI and GPU workloads side by side.

Understand Harvester architecture on SLE Micro, RKE2, KubeVirt and LonghornPlan capacity, node roles, CPU, memory and disk layouts for mixed VM and container clustersInstall Harvester on bare metal including PXE based and air gapped setupsManage VM images, templates, cloud init and day to day lifecycle with KubeVirtDesign management and tenant networking with VLANs, Linux bridges, Multus and multi NIC VMsUse Longhorn replication, snapshots, backup targets and Velero for VM aware disaster recoveryIntegrate Harvester with Rancher, create RKE2 guest clusters and use Cluster API for declarative clustersAutomate infrastructure with the Harvester Terraform provider, kubectl, custom resources and GitOps workflowsRun advanced workloads with PCI passthrough, SR IO V devices, NVIDIA GPU and vGPU supportPlan and execute VMware to Harvester migrations with phased cutovers and coexistenceOperate Harvester in production with upgrades, security hardening, incident playbooks and reference architectures including edge scenarios

This is a code heavy, configuration focused guide, with working YAML manifests, Terraform snippets and CLI examples that you can adapt directly for your own clusters.

If you are ready to move beyond VMware and run VMs and Kubernetes on a single, modern HCI platform, grab your copy today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G31RK8R8
• ISBN13: 9798275207101
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"