Enterprises today are re-evaluating their virtualization strategies in response to rising costs, changing business priorities, and mandates to de-risk and diversify their infrastructure stacks. In The Voice of Kubernetes Experts 2025 Report, 74% of respondents said their organization is taking a proactive approach to reducing their VMware footprint. Of the different paths, migrating VM management to Kubernetes through technologies like SUSE Virtualization and KubeVirt remains one of the most popular, with 57% organizations pursuing this approach.
To support this transformation, Portworx by Pure Storage and SUSE Virtualization have partnered to deliver a unified solution that provides enterprise-grade storage and data management capabilities to virtualized workloads running on Kubernetes. The joint solution offers a modern alternative to traditional virtualization platforms, empowering enterprises to lower total cost of ownership (TCO), reduce single-vendor risk, and accelerate their path to modernization.
Here is a look at how Portworx delivers key enterprise capabilities for VMs running on SUSE Virtualization:
Simplified Storage Management
Portworx simplifies Day 2 storage operations by streamlining tasks like performance, capacity, and lifecycle management in any environment.
- Infrastructure-agnostic: Store and manage your data anywhere—across clouds, data centers, or geographical regions—with a consistent and unified storage management plane.
- Storage Quality of Service: Portworx Application I/O control ensures consistent performance by managing I/O resources for individual VMs to prevent “noisy neighbor” issues.
- Automated Capacity Management: Beyond thin provisioning, Portworx dynamically scales storage resources to optimize both application needs and cost efficiency.
Application Portability
Today’s enterprise applications demand flexibility to meet a modern enterprise’s needs. Portworx enables seamless application mobility, so teams can run workloads wherever they prefer—without being tied to a specific hypervisor or hardware provider.
- Live Migration: Enable the live migration of VMs from one physical host to another without downtime.
- Data Portability: Migrate VMs between environments with minimal disruption.
Data Resilience and Availability
For critical workloads, high availability and data protection are non-negotiable. Portworx natively provides the capabilities for enterprises to protect their VMs running on Kubernetes.
- Data Availability: Portworx supports replication factors (1, 2, or 3) across nodes, ensuring data redundancy and resilience against node failures.
- Disaster Recovery (Future Support): Planned support will bring disaster recovery to SUSE Virtualization environments, enabling up to zero RPO disaster recovery for mission-critical workloads.
- Backup (Future Support): Planned support includes granular backup and recovery for VMs on Kubernetes.
Portworx and SUSE Virtualization free IT teams from getting locked into proprietary ecosystems, allowing enterprises to build a flexible virtualization platform. Lower your TCO, eliminate single-vendor risk, and give your organization a clear path to modernization today.
Want to learn more? Check out the Portworx and SUSE Virtualization solution brief.
