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What is OpenSDDC?

OpenSDDC stands for Open Software Defined Data Center.

One-sentence definition​

OpenSDDC is an open-source datacenter ecosystem focused on infrastructure freedom.

Short definition​

OpenSDDC is an open infrastructure ecosystem that aims to give organizations, communities, and public-sector infrastructure a datacenter approach free of dependency on a single vendor, license model, or cloud provider—one that is portable, auditable, and replaceable. It targets an Open Software Defined Center stack spanning KVM/QEMU, libvirt, OVS/OVN, Kubernetes, SAN/HCI storage, telemetry, observability, and automation, with open interfaces that work together.

The goal is not to position against a single vendor, but to reduce loss of agency due to vendor, license, cloud provider, or closed management planes.

What OpenSDDC is not​

  • Not a single product.
  • Not an anti-vendor manifesto.
  • Not a promise to be a drop-in replacement for VMware, Proxmox, or OpenShift.
  • Not a proposal to throw away existing investments.

Core message​

Free software taught us to own the code. It’s time to bring the same mindset to the infrastructure layer.

OpenSDDC is an open infrastructure ecosystem that aims to run virtualization, storage, Kubernetes, observability, and automation layers using open systems that work together.