Mastering SUSE Harvester: THE VMWARE ALTERNATIVE FOR CLOUD-NATIVE HCI: Build Hyperconverged Infrastr

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 Longhorn
• Plan capacity, node roles, CPU, memory and disk layouts for mixed VM and container clusters
• Install Harvester on bare metal including PXE based and air gapped setups
• Manage VM images, templates, cloud init and day to day lifecycle with KubeVirt
• Design management and tenant networking with VLANs, Linux bridges, Multus and multi NIC VMs
• Use Longhorn replication, snapshots, backup targets and Velero for VM aware disaster recovery
• Integrate Harvester with Rancher, create RKE2 guest clusters and use Cluster API for declarative clusters
• Automate infrastructure with the Harvester Terraform provider, kubectl, custom resources and GitOps workflows
• Run advanced workloads with PCI passthrough, SR IO V devices, NVIDIA GPU and vGPU support
• Plan and execute VMware to Harvester migrations with phased cutovers and coexistence
• Operate 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.