API Evangelist area
Virtualization
35 related providers on APIs.io
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Virtualization is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at virtualization.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Cisco Intersight, Slide, Smol Machines, Nutanix, VMware, Vagrant, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Migration, Management, Containers, and Orchestration. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering virtualization across two intertwined domains: machine virtualization (hypervisors, virtual machines, VDI, and cloud VM platforms) and…
Related providers (35)
Top 30 of 35 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Intersight | Cisco Intersight is Cisco's SaaS operations platform for UCS servers, HyperFlex clusters, Nexus fabrics, third-party storage and virtualization, covering provisioning, firmware ... | 11 | strong |
| Slide | Slide is a modern, security-first Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) platform built exclusively for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Founded by Datto creator Aust... | 14 | developing |
| Smol Machines | Smol Machines (smol machines, inc.) is a Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure company building portable, self-contained Linux microVMs. Its open-source `smolvm` engine a... | 19 | developing |
| Nutanix | Nutanix is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to power enterprise applications. Nutanix provide... | 21 | developing |
| VMware | Collection of VMware APIs for cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and management solutions including vSphere, NSX, vCloud Director, Tanzu, and Aria operations. | 59 | developing |
| Vagrant | Vagrant, by HashiCorp, is a tool for building and managing virtualized development environments. Their developer platform provides APIs and SDKs for interacting with Vagrant Clo... | 7 | developing |
| Vers | Vers is "git for running compute" — a branchable microVM platform from HD Research (hdresearch) that lets you fork a live virtual machine (memory, processes, sockets and all) in... | 12 | developing |
| Veritas InfoScale | APIs for Veritas InfoScale, an enterprise storage and availability management solution that provides high availability, disaster recovery, and storage management capabilities ac... | 13 | developing |
| OpenStack | Open source cloud computing platform for building and managing public and private clouds, providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) through a set of interrelated services inc... | 22 | developing |
| Solaris Zones | API for managing Solaris Zones (containers) and virtualization on Oracle Solaris systems. | 26 | developing |
| Citrix | Citrix is a global software company providing virtualization, networking, workspace, and digital experience products that allow organizations to deliver applications and desktop... | 27 | developing |
| Platform9 | Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your ... | 1 | thin |
| Google Cloud VMware Engine | Google Cloud VMware Engine is a fully managed service that lets you run VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud infrastructure. It provides dedicated, single-tenant VMware SDD... | 3 | thin |
| KubeVirt | KubeVirt is a CNCF incubating project that extends Kubernetes to run traditional virtual machines alongside containers. It allows users to create, manage, and run VMs using the ... | 8 | thin |
| Apache CloudStack | Apache CloudStack is an open-source cloud computing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It ... | 4 | thin |
| Incus | Incus is a modern open source system container and virtual machine manager maintained by LinuxContainers.org as a community-led fork of Canonical's LXD. It provides a unified ex... | 22 | thin |
| Broadcom | Broadcom is a global technology company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of semiconductors and other hardware components for a wide range of industries. They pro... | 20 | thin |
| Firecracker | Firecracker is an open source virtual machine monitor (VMM) built by Amazon Web Services that uses KVM to create and manage lightweight microVMs. Designed for serverless computi... | 19 | thin |
| Parallels (SWSoft) | Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company, originally founded as SWSoft in 1999 and renamed Parallels in 2008 (now part of Alludo/Corel). Its flagship ent... | 1 | thin |
| Parallels | Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company (part of Alludo, with the Parallels virtualization division held by KKR) best known for Parallels Desktop for Ma... | 1 | thin |
| SimpliVity | SimpliVity is the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017 and now shipped as HPE SimpliVity. Its data virtualization platform ... | 10 | thin |
| Proxmox VE | Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is an open-source server virtualization platform that combines KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networkin... | 5 | thin |
| Tintri | Tintri, now part of DDN, builds intelligent enterprise data-management and storage infrastructure: the VMstore virtualization-aware storage platform, the Tintri Cloud Platform (... | 1 | emerging |
| NanoVMs | NanoVMs builds unikernel infrastructure that lets developers run a single application as its own lightweight, secure virtual machine with no operating system and no devops. Its ... | 0 | emerging |
| Kerys | Kerys Software is a European (Palaiseau, France) cybersecurity company behind YS::Desktop, a Type 1 hypervisor that runs multiple fully isolated environments on a single worksta... | 0 | emerging |
| Unidesk | Unidesk was a Marlborough, Massachusetts software company backed by Matrix Partners that pioneered application layering for virtual desktop infrastructure, packaging Windows app... | 0 | minimal |
| Bedrock Systems | BedRock Systems (now operating as BlueRock Security, Inc) is a United States based cybersecurity company building formally verified systems software for critical infrastructure.... | 0 | minimal |
| Lima | Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd integration for running containers. | 0 | minimal |
| Calista Technologies | Calista Technologies was a desktop and GPU virtualization startup founded in 2006 in San Jose, California by Neal Margulis, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock, and ... | 0 | minimal |
| CloudPhysics | CloudPhysics is a SaaS-based big-data analytics platform for virtualized IT infrastructure, founded in 2011 and acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2021. Deployed as the C... | 0 | minimal |
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