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Hikube vs VMware: Swiss alternative
VMware alternative: move from vSphere (Broadcom) to Swiss cloud hosting: same VMs, API, backup and VPC, Swiss operator.
- ISO 27001
- 3 DC
- SLA 99.99%
For enterprise workloads in Switzerland, VMware remains legitimate on-prem if you have the team and a viable Broadcom contract. Hikube is the Swiss cloud exit: no hardware refresh, VMDK/QCOW2/ISO import, licensed Windows Server on the same instances as Linux, VLAN to VPC/subnets, Backup as a Service, without switching to a US hyperscaler. Operator Hidora SA, three DCs (Geneva, Gland, Lucerne), 99.99% SLA, ISO 27001, FR/EN engineer support. You lose vCenter as-is. You gain an operator, an API, three sites. An engineer frames a 10–20 VM pilot before the factory.
| Capabilities | Hikube | VMware |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | Managed platform | You operate the stack |
| Support and on-call | 24×7 infrastructure on-call; desk 08:00–18:00 CET, FR/EN, response within 4 h at P1 priority | Your team is the on-call; vendor support does not restart your hosts |
| Reversibility | Content returned in a standard format, kept 30 days; volumes as disk images, S3-compatible, kubectl and Helm | Your VMs are yours, but hardware, vSAN and NSX do not resell at purchase price |
| Migration execution | Engineer framing included; factory by your team, under a Hidora SOW, or by a partner integrator | Nothing to migrate, but a hardware refresh and a renegotiation at every renewal |
| Datacenters | 3 independent Swiss DCs: Geneva, Gland, Lucerne | Typical on-prem: the customer DC |
| Energy | Swiss DCs, renewable electricity (infrastructure page). No published PUE. | Customer pays facility power and the room |
| Licensing | Cloud usage + optional Windows | Broadcom model |
| HA and licenses | HA via published 3xReplicated block SKUs (sync or async) | HA often needs vSphere / vSAN licenses |
| Import | VMDK / QCOW2 / ISO | Already on the hypervisor |
| Network | VPC and subnets, public IPv4 (failover across 3 sites), managed K8s Ingress, IN/OUT traffic free | Customer DC network (VLANs, often NSX) |
| BGP | Not a published SKU. VPN or site-to-site: ask an engineer | Customer peering in their DC, if they already run it |
How to read this table. The comparison does not set two clouds against each other but two operating models: a platform you run on your own hardware, and an infrastructure run for you. Several rows are therefore not symmetric by nature: “Operations”, “Licensing” and “Running the migration” describe responsibilities changing sides, not a feature present in one and missing in the other. The VMware columns describe the public Broadcom model, reviewed on 8 September 2026; your own contract and renewal terms outrank any generality. The exit procedure lives elsewhere, deliberately: the VMware exit checklist.
Frequently asked questions
Not as-is. Control moves to the Hikube API and console. That is the managed-cloud trade-off.
The exit checklist we hand you has to apply to us. The contract governs reversibility at the end of the relationship: the return procedure, the retention period and any fees are set there, and the contract is what binds : the general terms. Technically: volumes exportable as disk images, S3-compatible object storage, standard kubectl and Helm. No SDN fabric or proprietary backup format to buy back on the way out.
Disk HA is the 3xReplicated SKU (sync or async) on the pricing page, not a stacked option or a license add-on. On VMware, an HA cluster often depends on vSphere licenses and, for shared storage, on vSAN.
No published PUE. The three Swiss DCs run on renewable electricity; detail is on the infrastructure page. On VMware on-prem, the customer pays facility power and the room.
Yes for a VM lift-and-shift under Swiss law: VMDK import, backup, VPC, 99.99% SLA. Kubernetes is optional for new apps, not a cutover prerequisite. FR/EN support in Geneva.
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