The world's easiest, lightest HCI hypervisor
Compute, storage, networking and backups in one appliance: a single ISO, a single memory-safe Rust binary, and a dashboard that answers in five seconds. This is what comes after the heavyweight era of virtualization.
Built on open standards you can audit · KVM · libvirt · ZFS · Open vSwitch · DRBD · etcd · Debian 13
One appliance, the whole datacenter
Compute, storage, networking, backup, migration and high availability — every piece built with the same obsession. Click in.
Compute
VM cards with live consoles, a six-step wizard and multi-OS guest tools.
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Storage
Native ZFS pools, automatic snapshots and instant clones — hyperconverged by default.
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Networking
Open vSwitch networking in operator vocabulary — bridges, vNICs and VLANs without the jargon.
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Backup
SynBaaS: immutable, chain-aware backups built into the platform — no third-party product.
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Migration
Bring VMs from anywhere: nine import formats and a guided three-move migration flow.
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Scale & HA
Standalone → Twin → Cluster: grow from one node to full HA without reinstalling.
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Run your infrastructure, not your hypervisor
“Is everything OK?” — answered in five seconds
Every screen in the dashboard is built on the five-second rule: state, capacity and alarms readable at a glance, live over server-sent events — no polling, no refresh button. VNC and WebRTC consoles open right where you are.
From bare metal to the first VM in minutes
One live ISO with a guided web wizard sets up disks, the ZFS pool and the admin user. Creating a VM is a six-step wizard with smart defaults — pick the OS, size compute with real host limits in view, done.
Storage that protects your data by design
Native ZFS pools with automatic snapshots every fifteen minutes, instant clones and RAW zvol disks. The built-in backup engine adds S3 Object Lock immutability, GFS retention and restore-as-a-new-VM.
Easy from minute one
Boot the ISO, follow the web wizard and land in a dashboard built on the five-second rule: every screen answers its core question at a glance. Smart defaults everywhere; destructive actions ask you to type the resource name.
Light by design
The entire control plane is one memory-safe Rust binary — web server, REST API and TLS included. No management appliance, no cloud dependency: after install it runs fully offline, with zero telemetry.
Grows with you
Start standalone on one node, add a second with synchronous DRBD replication (Twin), or scale to a 3+ node cluster with live migration. The upgrade path is non-destructive — you never reinstall.
Everything an operator needs, built in
Console in the browser
VNC and WebRTC consoles straight from the dashboard, with real clipboard and viewport-driven resize.
Multi-OS guest tools
Agents for Windows 7+ (legacy XP/2003 too), Linux and FreeBSD, packaged as .deb, .rpm, pkg and a Windows installer with silent mode.
Software-defined networking
Open vSwitch bridges managed from the dashboard, with operator vocabulary instead of platform jargon.
Admin console on the box
A full text-mode console on tty1: network, DNS, NTP, logs, debug bundles to USB and factory reset — even with no browser around.
Open, auditable stack
KVM, libvirt, ZFS, Open vSwitch and Debian 13 — open technologies you can audit end-to-end, driven by a Rust control plane.
REST API and operator CLI
Everything the dashboard does is a REST call you can script, plus a CLI binary for day-two automation.
How SynVirt compares
| Capability | SynVirt | VMware vSphere | Nutanix AHV | Proxmox VE | Morpheus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you deploy before VM #1 | ✓ Nothing. One ISO installs the node and the node is the manager. | A management appliance VM, sized, patched and protected | A controller VM on every node, forever | Nothing extra — but storage and networking are yours to assemble | Its own appliance — and a hypervisor underneath it that you still buy |
| What the platform costs you per node | ✓ One Rust process. API, web UI and TLS in a single binary. | Hypervisor plus a share of the management appliance | RAM and vCPU on every node, taken from the hardware you bought for workloads | A web UI per node — genuinely light | A management layer on top of everything else you already run |
| Licensing | ✓ Per CPU socket. Four tiers. Unlimited VMs on all of them. | Per-core subscription, with a core minimum per CPU | Capacity- and node-based subscription | Free; pay for support and the enterprise repository | Per workload, on top of what you already license |
| Immutable backup | ✓ In the box. S3 Object Lock, verified — the engine checks the lock, it never trusts the claim. | Buy a third-party product | Buy a third-party product | Install and run a second product | Orchestrates someone else's backup |
| Two nodes and a witness | ✓ Twin mode. Synchronous replication, lightweight witness, promoted in place — no reinstall. | Two-node cluster plus a witness appliance | Possible, but the model is built for larger clusters | Needs an external quorum device | Whatever the platform underneath does |
| Getting your VMs out of where they are | ✓ Six live-pull adapters and ten offline formats. Windows guests get virtio drivers injected automatically. | We pull from it | We pull from it | We pull from it | It does not move VMs — it manages the platforms that hold them |
Comparisons describe publicly documented architecture and licensing models as of July 2026, and are provided to help you evaluate design trade-offs. Vendors change terms; verify anything that matters to your decision. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used here for identification only.
Licensing that scales with your hardware, not your VM count
Tiered by CPU socket. Unlimited VMs on every edition. 30-day trial with Starter limits.
Starter
1 socket
Small office, single server
Professional
2 sockets
SMB primary + DR
Business
Up to 8 sockets
Growing SMB, small MSP
Enterprise
Unlimited sockets
MSP and multi-tenant — offline activation available