Cockpit
Centralized data center virtualization management. The operational replacement for VMware vCenter — built for teams that refuse to compromise on control.
VMware license costs are accelerating. Your infrastructure budget should not.
Awanio Cockpit is a direct, drop-in replacement for VMware vCenter. It manages distributed hypervisor hosts running the lightweight Vapor platform — our ESXi alternative.
Retain your operational workflows, eliminate retraining overhead, and move to open-source-native performance without risking production stability.
IT leaders are seeing 3x-5x cost increases in legacy virtualization licensing. Cockpit reduces OpEx by up to 70% through sovereign architectural efficiency.
Zero-Retraining Migration
Cockpit preserves the virtualization patterns and terminology your team already operates.
Familiar Inventory Tree
Organize hosts, resource pools, and datastores in nested hierarchies matching vCenter patterns.
Identical Networking
Software-defined switches, portgroups, and VLAN IDs without complex CLI scripting.
Standard VM Lifecycle
Boot, clone, snapshot, and restore VMs using QCOW2 with in-browser SPICE console access.
Enterprise SSO / RBAC
Active Directory and LDAP synchronization with granular object-level role assignments.
Technical Architecture
A three-tier cluster model connecting browser-based management to distributed hypervisor hosts through a centralized engine.
Cockpit Web UI
Real-time WebSocket streams delivering live task progress, alarm notifications, and VM console access to administrators.
Cluster Engine
The Brain: Go-based API server coordinating resource scheduling, migration, and health monitoring.
Vapor Host Nodes
Distributed hypervisor agents running KVM workloads and executing cluster directives from the engine.
The Path to Sovereignty
Transition from VMware to Awanio in four automated steps. Retain full operational continuity without the legacy baggage.
Powered by Condensa
Our specialized migration engine handles the heavy lifting of data conversion and synchronization.
Connect Source Credentials
Register your vCenter or ESXi host credentials as a secure migration source inside Condensa.
Select Target Cluster
Designate the target Cockpit host cluster where migrated workloads will be provisioned automatically.
Enable Changed Block Tracking
Activate CBT on live VMs to stream incremental disk changes with zero downtime to the production workload.
Execute Automated Pipeline
Run the automated data pipeline to synchronize, convert, and boot instances in the Awanio ecosystem.
Deploy Cockpit in Your Data Center
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Released under the MIT License.