An open-source virtualisation platform based on Xen, a long-standing and influential hypervisor in the industry.

As a Tier-1 hypervisor, XCP-ng runs directly on hardware and is built for performance, security, and scalability.

A stable and flexible alternative to proprietary systems like VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Competitive pricing and reliable service from initial purchase through to long-term support.

Pricing & Support

	Essential £1420/year max 3 hosts Go to Plan	Essential+ £2835/year max 3 hosts Go to Plan	Pro £710/host/year min 3 hosts Go to Plan	Enterprise £1275/host/year min 4 hosts Go to Plan
Vates Virtualization Management Stack ⌃
XCP-ng
⤷ The virtualization platform at the core of Vates VMS. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Xen Orchestra Appliance	1 appliance	1 appliance	1 appliance	1 appliance
⤷ The web interface for management, administration and backup dedicated to XCP-ng virtualization platform. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Extra Xen Orchestra Appliance	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
XOSTOR	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
⤷ Software-defined hyperconvergence solution that enables users to easily manage and scale their storage infrastructure in a cost-effective manner. Read More (Open a New Tab)
XO Proxy	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
⤷ Manage your backup in distant or very large infrastructure with low latency. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Airgap support			Optional	Optional
⤷ Suitable for deployment in an air-gapped environment. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Support ⌃
Pro Support
⤷ Our team of experts provides enhanced technical assistance and guidance.
Remote SSH assistance
⤷ Allows our experts to access and troubleshoot your systems remotely using a secure command-line interface. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Support Tickets	6 / year	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Days Coverage	Business Days	Business Days	Business Days	24/7
Severity 1 response time	24h	24h	24h	1h
⤷ Please refer to the VMS user conditions for details on severity classification.
Setup assistance
⤷ Professional guidance to help you install, configure and optimize your XCP-ng and XOA environment.
Upgrade assistance
⤷ Professional guidance to help you upgrade your virtual environment while minimizing downtime and ensure a smooth transition.
Core Features ⌃
Maximum hosts per pool	3 Hosts	3 Hosts	64 Hosts	64 Hosts
Basic Features
Web Updater
⤷ User-friendly tool that enables users to perform monthly updates on XOA. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Turnkey Secured Appliance
⤷ A pre-configured VM that includes the XO web interface and necessary security measures to help you easily and securely manage your infrastructure.
Live storage migration
⤷ Move virtual machine disk files between storage devices or storage pools without any interruption or downtime. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Dynamic memory control
⤷ Allocation of memory to virtual machines adjusted automatically based on the workload demands, optimizing resource usage and improving performance. Read More (Open a New Tab)
XVA/OVA Import
⤷ Import XVA and OVA virtual machines images. Read More (Open a New Tab)
XVA Export
⤷ Export XVA virtual machines images. Read More (Open a New Tab)
REST API
⤷ Interface for developers to automate and integrate virtualization management tasks with external systems, allowing for greater flexibility and customization. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Hyperthreading detection
⤷ Detects and reports the presence of hyperthreading technology on CPUs, allowing for optimized virtual machine placement and performance.
Let's Encrypt Support
⤷ Easily obtain and manage SSL/TLS certificates for your virtual environment for better security and encryption.
USB passthrough
⤷ Allows USB devices to be connected directly to a virtual machine, enabling full access and control of the device.
GPU passthrough
⤷ Allows GPU to be assigned directly to a virtual machine, providing high-performance graphics capabilities and hardware acceleration.
Warm migration
⤷ Move VMs between physical hosts minimizing downtime when Live migration is not available. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Backup & disaster recovery ⌃
Full backups
⤷ Backup entire VMs, including all its disks, configuration and metadata. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Amazon S3 backup storage
⤷ Store virtual machine backups on Amazon S3 (and other S3 storage), a cloud storage solution, enabling hybrid backup solutions. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Backup reports
⤷ Get detailed reports of all your backup jobs, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot your backup processes. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Backup Encryption
⤷ Protect your backup via encryption with a passphrase. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Chained Backups
⤷ Plan your backup jobs one after another automatically, allowing to mix and match all your backup requirements.
Synchronous Backups Merging
⤷ Optimize the way your backups are merged together.
Incremental Backup
⤷ Backup VMs by sending only the delta between each backup job. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Full Replication
⤷ Backup entire VMs using another host as a target repository for faster recovery in case of disaster. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Smart Backup
⤷ Improve your backup strategy with more flexibility by selecting VMs to backup based on their status, tags, or placement, instead of manually choosing each one of them. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Metadata Backup
⤷ Allows you to recover from a physical hardware failure scenario in which you lose your hosts without losing your storage. Read More (Open a New Tab)
RAM enabled backup
⤷ Backup contents of your VMs including the RAM along with the disk data, improving data integrity in the event of a failure. Read More (Open a New Tab)
File-level restore
⤷ Restore individual files or directories from virtual machine backups, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in data recovery operations. Read More (Open a New Tab)
VMs management ⌃
Rolling snapshots
⤷ Create a series of snapshots for a virtual machine. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Other authentication plugins
⤷ Integrate Xen Orchestra with your existing enterprise level authentication system and enable single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. Read More (Open a New Tab)
ACLs
⤷ ACLs (Access Control Lists) allows administrators to control and manage user access to specific resources and actions within the XOA platform. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Self-service
⤷ Allows administrators to delegate resources in XOA for end-users to create and manage their own VMs, providing greater autonomy in managing workload. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Monitoring & Health ⌃
VMs stats
⤷ Provides real-time monitoring of performance and resources usage in your environment, allowing you to troubleshoot issues as well as optimize your resources.
Disk status
⤷ Display the current SMART data of your disks directly in the host view. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Statistics
⤷ Analyze trends and patterns, optimize your resources, and plan for future capacity requirements.
Infrastructure reports
⤷ Detailed report on the state of your virtual infrastructure, including status of your VMs, storage, network, and hosts, helping your to identify issues and optimize resources.
Infra Health
⤷ Provides comprehensive view of the health and performance of your virtual infrastructure, allowing you to monitor and diagnose issues and optimize your resources.
Advanced Live Telemetry
⤷ Detailed view of your infrastructure with resource consumption analysis (CPU/RAM), network traffic, storage, IMPI info and more. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Dataviz (dashboard)
⤷ A visual representation of the performance and health of your virtual infrastructure, using graphs, charts, and other visualizations.
Audit log
⤷ Tracks and records all user actions within the infrastructure, providing an audit trail that can be used for compliance, security, and troubleshooting. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Pool management & Automation ⌃
Pool/host auto patching
⤷ Automated patching and updates for hosts and pools, helping you to keep your infrastructure up-to-date in a single click.
Job Manager
⤷ Schedule tasks and jobs in your infrastructure, such as backups, snapshots, and VM migrations, from a centralized dashboard. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Webhooks
⤷ Trigger an external web hook before or after any kind of action, from a VM start to an host reboot.
XO Hub
⤷ Browse and download pre-packaged VMs template to extend the functionality of your virtualization environment.
Ansible inventory provider
⤷ User our Ansible inventory provider to automatically fetch all the resources of your virtualized infrastructure. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Packer provider
⤷ Build your templates and VMs as code with our Packer provider. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Terraform provider
⤷ Allows infrastructure as code (IaC) automation using Terraform directly embeds in your Xen Orchestra Appliance. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Kubernetes Recipe
⤷ Deploy and manage K8s clusters directly from your XOA appliance.
Docker management
⤷ Deploy, manage, and monitor Docker containers within your virtualization infrastructure. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Rolling pool update
⤷ Handle automatically the update of a whole pool of hosts.
Rolling pool update scheduling
⤷ Schedule the Rolling Pool Update feature to keep your hosts up-to-date automatically.
Load balancing
⤷ Automatically distributes VMs across multiple servers to improve performance, reliability, and optimize resource utilization. Or use anti-affinity to avoid replicated services running on the same host! Read More (Open a New Tab)
Multihost Pool Join
⤷ Easily add multiple hosts to an existing pool with just a few clicks.
Smart Host Reboot
⤷ Reboot your host without losing VM memory.
Cloudinit support
⤷ Configure VM at boot time with custom scripts and cloud-init directives, streamlines the process of configuring multiple virtual machines with the same settings, making it ideal for cloud deployments.
Network ⌃
SR-IOV networking
⤷ Lets multiple virtual machines share a single network interface card (NIC) with direct access, reducing CPU usage and improving network performance.
Netbox Sync
⤷ Enables syncing virtualization inventory with NetBox, an IPAM/DCIM tool for better tracking and managing of IP addresses, physical hosts, and other infrastructure components. Read More (Open a New Tab)
SDN controller
⤷ Manage and configure software-defined private networks within your virtualization infrastructure. Read More (Open a New Tab)
Cross hosts private network
⤷ Create private networks (VLAN, VXLAN) that spans multiple hosts in your infrastructure. Allows for communication between VMs running on different hosts without the need for external networking.
	Go to Plan	Go to Plan	Go to Plan	Go to Plan

All XCP-ng Vates VMS plans include Xen Orchestra. Xen Orchestra features a sophisticated graphical interface, delivering a seamless dashboard experience for efficient management. Through this user-friendly tool, navigating and optimizing the virtual environment becomes a streamlined and intuitive process. The integration of Xen Orchestra within the VMS plans stands as a testament to Vates commitment to providing comprehensive solutions that combine ease of use, robust functionality and professional support.

Efficient Virtualization Management

Xen Orchestra: Modern VM Management

Effortlessly manage your virtual machines with Xen Orchestra's modern web interface. Gain access to detailed statistics, IP addresses, and CPU/RAM information, all in one user-friendly platform. This streamlined approach enhances your virtualization tasks, ensuring efficient control and optimization.

Live Migration and Scalable Growth

Move your VMs across the globe seamlessly using Xen Orchestra's live migration feature, without any disruptions. Moreover, scale your cloud infrastructure effortlessly by adding hosts as needed. This scalability empowers you to adapt your virtualization resources according to your requirements, making Xen Orchestra a versatile solution for dynamic environments.