XCP-ng
🇫🇷 FR · from €1,000/host/year
Open-source Type-1 hypervisor for enterprise virtualization
Replaces
XCP-ng is sought as a European alternative to:
Features
Hypervisor & Core Architecture
- Type-1 bare-metal hypervisor based on Xen Project kernel
- x86_64 architecture support with ARM (Ampere Computing) compatibility in development
- Dynamic Memory Control (DMC)
- PCI passthrough support
- UEFI and legacy BIOS boot support
- GPG-signed ISOs and RPM repositories
Virtual Machine Lifecycle & Migration
- Full VM lifecycle management (creation, cloning, snapshots, fast clones)
- VM templating with cloud-init / Cloudbase-init automation
- Live cross-host VM migration without downtime
- Warm-migration V2V tooling for VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM imports
Storage Capabilities
- Broad Storage Repository (SR) support: local EXT/software RAID, SAN/NAS (iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, SMB)
- VHD image format (2 TiB limit per virtual disk)
- QCOW2 image format (up to 16 TiB per disk)
- Automatic disk coalescing on snapshot deletion
- Software-defined distributed hyperconverged storage via XOSTOR (LINBIT LINSTOR & DRBD replication)
Networking & SDN
- Built on Open vSwitch (OVS)
- Physical NIC bonding/aggregation
- VLAN segmentation
- GRE and VXLAN tunnel interfaces
- SR-IOV direct NIC sharing
- SDN controller capabilities via Xen Orchestra plugins
High Availability & Management
- Pool-wide High Availability (HA) with automatic VM failover/restart
- Centralized multi-pool administration via Xen Orchestra (XOA) web UI
- Embedded browser-based host administration via XO Lite
- Native CLI (xe)
Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Native agentless backup engine in Xen Orchestra
- Automated rolling snapshots, full and incremental delta backups
- Continuous replication / disaster recovery (CR/DR)
- File-level restore, snapshot encryption/compression
- Remote backup proxying (XO Proxy)
- S3 Object Lock immutability and pool metadata backups
Pricing
- Business Day support
- 24-hour response time on critical issues
- Up to 6 support tickets per year
- Business Day support
- 24-hour response time on critical issues
- Unlimited support tickets
- Full Xen Orchestra feature access
- Business Day support
- 24-hour response time on critical issues
- Unlimited support tickets
- 24/7 support
- 1-hour response time on critical incidents
- Setup and upgrade assistance
- Unlimited support tickets
Multi-year discounts available (-10% for 3 years, -15% for 5 years). Regional USD conversions and custom enterprise quotes via vendor.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-09-21. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →EU data residency
XCP-ng is a self-hosted hypervisor; customer workloads remain on the customer’s infrastructure by default.
- Evidence →European legal entityVates SAS, Grenoble (FR)
- Evidence →Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
Included as Schedule 2 to the Vates VMS Terms and Conditions.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Fully open-source with no artificial licensing limits or feature gating
- Modern web-based management via Xen Orchestra for VM orchestration and pool management
- Built-in enterprise features like live VM migration, resource pooling, and continuous replication
- High stability and performance inherited from the mature Xen Project hypervisor core
- Active community forums and responsive core developer team at Vates
- Native delta backup and disaster recovery mechanisms via Xen Orchestra
- Cost-effective alternative to proprietary hypervisors like VMware vSphere/ESXi
Where users see room to improve
- · Steep learning curve for CLI/legacy XenCenter management without Xen Orchestra
- · 2 TiB virtual disk size limit for native storage repositories
- · No native OS-level container support (e.g., LXC) or advanced file systems like ZFS
Integrations
Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-09-21), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.