The Spectro Cloud Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) enables organizations to run both virtual machines (VMs) and containers within the same Kubernetes clusters, simplifying infrastructure management. As enterprises transition to cloud-native applications, VMO addresses the challenge of maintaining legacy VM-based applications alongside containerized workloads. VMO consolidates VM and container management into a single Kubernetes-based operating model, allowing businesses to reduce dependencies on traditional virtualization platforms like VMware and cut costs. Palette VMO utilizes Kubernetes’ features for declarative management, scheduling, and resilience, applying them to VMs. This enables seamless orchestration and lifecycle management, whether running in bare-metal environments or across hybrid infrastructures. The key benefits of VMO include live migration of VMs, dynamic resource rebalancing, and multi-cluster management, allowing users to manage both VMs and containers from a unified platform. With KubeVirt pre-configured in Spectro Cloud’s Palette, the setup is simplified, allowing businesses to manage VMs directly within Kubernetes clusters. VMO also integrates with Kubernetes-native tools like CSI for storage and CNI for networking, ensuring that VM workloads can leverage the full range of Kubernetes ecosystem capabilities. This integration allows businesses to streamline operations, improve resource utilization, and innovate faster by consolidating their VM and container workloads into a single, more efficient platform. Other vendors offer some ability to run VMs on containers, and if you are brave it is possible to DIY using KuveVirt. But with Palette you get the simplest and most flexible way to deploy and manage bare-metal klusters, native multicluster support and an easy setup on top of everything. Visit spectrocloud.com to arrange a personal demo of Palette with one of our experts and see VMO in action today! And if you're looking for even more reasons to choose Palette, visit our "Why Palette" page.