What Are the Best IT Automation Platforms for Multi-hypervisor Environments?

Running more than one hypervisor has moved from an edge case to a planning assumption for enterprise infrastructure teams. Gartner expects half of enterprise customers to consider leaving VMware by 2029, as reported by ITdaily, and the teams that do move rarely switch in one step; they stand up Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V or OpenShift Virtualization alongside vSphere and migrate workloads as renewals and hardware cycles allow, which means two or more platforms running in production for years at a time.

The operational cost of that period is rarely in the hypervisors themselves. Provisioning, post-build configuration, backup enrolment, disaster recovery tests, patching and decommissioning were built against one platform’s APIs, and each additional hypervisor doubles the runbooks, the scripts and the skills the team has to maintain, while automation that was consistent on one platform becomes inconsistent across two. The choice of automation layer decides whether the estate is operated as one environment with several platforms underneath or as several environments that happen to share a team.

This guide is written for infrastructure directors, virtualisation architects and platform engineering leads who are running, or planning to run, more than one hypervisor. It compares four platforms on the criteria that determine whether one workflow can operate every platform in the estate with the same consistency.

How We Chose the Best IT Automation Platforms for Multi-Hypervisor Environments

We assessed each platform against six criteria drawn from how mixed-hypervisor estates are operated during and after a migration, using vendor documentation, published pricing and review aggregations with counts, and we dated every figure that changes.

• Platform neutrality: Whether the automation layer is independent of any one hypervisor vendor’s infrastructure stack and roadmap.
• Hypervisor breadth: Documented support for vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, OpenShift Virtualization and public cloud.
• Day-2 operations: Whether the platform automates configuration, patching, backup, disaster recovery testing and decommissioning, beyond initial provisioning.
• Cross-domain reach: Whether one workflow can act on hypervisors, network devices, identity, monitoring and ITSM together.
• Governance: Approvals, change-ticket linkage and an execution record that holds across every platform.
• Licensing structure: Whether the automation license is separate from any hypervisor license, and whether pricing is published.

The 4 Best IT Automation Platforms for Multi-Hypervisor Environments

1. Resolve
2. HPE Morpheus Enterprise
3. Nutanix Cloud Manager
4. CloudBolt

1. Resolve: Best overall IT automation platform for multi-hypervisor environments

Resolve is an automation and orchestration platform that sits above every hypervisor in the estate, executing API calls, SSH commands and CLI commands against vCenter, Nutanix Prism, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, OpenShift and public cloud services from one workflow. Because it carries no hypervisor of its own, the same provisioning, configuration and day-2 workflows run on whichever platform hosts the workload, and the automation layer stays constant while the infrastructure underneath changes.

That neutrality extends beyond the hypervisor. A single Resolve workflow can provision a VM, configure the guest, register it in the CMDB, enrol it in backup and monitoring, update firewall rules and close the change ticket, triggered by an approved ITSM change, a chat request, an alert or a system event. Peel Police adopted Resolve after finding vendor-specific tools limited to a single ecosystem, standardised server builds across VMware and Microsoft environments, and recorded $193,000 in savings and 160 days of effort eliminated within 30 days.

Resolve is a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms, the second consecutive year it has been the only vendor in that quadrant. The Visionary placement means Gartner scores the Leaders higher on ability to execute, and buyers who weight vendor scale heavily will see that difference in the report.

Resolve features

• Hypervisor-neutral workflows: One workflow acts on each platform through its API, SSH or CLI, so the same build and day-2 logic runs on every hypervisor in the estate.
• Cross-domain orchestration: Workflows span hypervisors, network devices, identity, monitoring, backup and ITSM in a single run.
• Named triggers and change linkage: Chat, alert, tool and system triggers, including approved ITSM change requests, start workflows and every outcome is written back to the ticket.
• Bring your own code: Existing PowerCLI, PowerShell and Python scripts and Ansible playbooks are imported as reusable building blocks next to no-code steps.
• Jarvis and the Automation Vault: Jarvis builds workflows from a plain-language description, and the Automation Vault supplies prebuilt workflows drawn from more than 5,000 prebuilt integrations and workflows.

Pros:

• The automation license carries no hypervisor, so the platform’s roadmap is independent of any one virtualisation vendor’s stack.
• Day-2 operations, network changes and ITSM updates run in the same workflow as provisioning, which keeps operations consistent across platforms.
• Customer results are measured, including Peel Police’s savings within 30 days and, across the customer base, 99% faster mean time to resolution and 70% lower tool spend.

Cons:

• Gartner places Resolve in the Visionary quadrant, and buyers who prioritise vendor size will find larger incumbents ranked higher on ability to execute.
• Resolve automates operations on each platform and does not migrate workloads between them, so teams still need V2V tooling for the move itself.

2. HPE Morpheus Enterprise: Hybrid cloud management with broad hypervisor support

HPE Morpheus Enterprise came from Morpheus Data, which HPE acquired on August 30, 2024, and its supported integrations documentation lists vCenter 5.5 through 8.x, Hyper-V 2012 R2 through 2025, SCVMM, Nutanix AOS, OpenStack and XenServer alongside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. That breadth makes it one of the more complete cloud management platforms for estates that already run several hypervisors.

The Enterprise tier adds a policy engine with approvals, quotas, multi-tenancy and delegated administration across private cloud, public cloud, Kubernetes and bare metal. Gartner Peer Insights users rate it 4.4 from 99 ratings as of November 6, 2026.

HPE Morpheus Enterprise features

• Multi-platform catalog: Self-service provisioning across documented hypervisors and public clouds from one catalog.
• Policy and tenancy: Approvals, quotas, multi-tenancy and delegated administration enforced centrally.
• Lifecycle orchestration: Full lifecycle orchestration across clouds and workloads in the Enterprise tier.

Pros:

• Documented hypervisor coverage is broad, spanning vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AOS, OpenStack and XenServer.
• Governance, tenancy and quota controls are mature.
• A Gartner Peer Insights rating of 4.4 from 99 ratings as of November 6, 2026.

Cons:

• Since May 2025, HPE has shipped both Morpheus offerings with its own HVM hypervisor and per-socket licensing, which brings a hypervisor of HPE’s own into the automation decision.
• Proxmox VE and OpenShift Virtualization do not appear in the supported integrations list for version 8.0.6, and teams running those platforms should confirm current support directly with HPE.
• Pricing is not published, HPE’s store lists per-socket SKUs without a price, and full lifecycle orchestration requires the Enterprise tier.

3. Nutanix Cloud Manager: Self-service and orchestration for Nutanix-centred estates

Nutanix Cloud Manager is Nutanix’s management suite, and its Self-Service module, formerly Calm, provides blueprints for Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, along with Kubernetes accounts that include Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift. The Pro tier adds a Self-Service Marketplace, IaaS VM blueprints and orchestration runbooks.

For organisations moving workloads from vSphere to Nutanix AHV, NCM offers a familiar self-service model that spans both platforms during the transition, and Gartner Peer Insights users rate it 4.5 from 80 ratings as of November 6, 2026.

Nutanix Cloud Manager features

• Self-Service blueprints: VM and application blueprints for Nutanix, VMware and the major public clouds.
• Marketplace and runbooks: A Self-Service Marketplace and orchestration runbooks in the Pro tier.
• Kubernetes accounts: Support for EKS, AKS, Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift as Kubernetes targets.

Pros:

• Native integration with Nutanix AHV and Prism suits organisations whose migration target is Nutanix.
• Blueprints cover VMware and the major public clouds alongside Nutanix.
• A Gartner Peer Insights rating of 4.5 from 80 ratings as of November 6, 2026.

Cons:

• Nutanix’s NCM datasheet places Self-Service outside the Starter tier, reserves multi-VM application blueprints and approval governance for Ultimate, and sells public cloud provisioning as a separate add-on.
• Self-Service is integrated into Prism Central, and Nutanix’s v3.8 administration guide states it is supported only on AHV and ESXi hypervisors running on a Nutanix cluster, so Hyper-V is not supported.
• The v3.8 guide does not list Proxmox VE, and OpenShift appears only as a Kubernetes target, so teams running those platforms should confirm current support with Nutanix.

4. CloudBolt: Broad platform coverage with a cost management focus

CloudBolt states support for more than 25 cloud providers and hypervisors out of the box, including vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, Azure Local, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and IBM Cloud, with integrations for ServiceNow, Terraform and Ansible. Its May 2026 release added handlers for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, OpenShift Virtualization, Azure Local and Hyper-V, which keeps its coverage current with the platforms VMware customers are evaluating.

CloudBolt pairs that coverage with cost management, having acquired Kumolus in 2020 and Kubernetes rightsizing specialist StormForge on March 31, 2025. Gartner Peer Insights users rate it 4.4 from 71 ratings as of November 6, 2026.

CloudBolt features

• Broad platform handlers: Provisioning across more than 25 clouds and hypervisors, including OpenShift Virtualization and Azure Local.
• FinOps and rightsizing: Cost visibility and Kubernetes rightsizing alongside provisioning.
• Toolchain integrations: ServiceNow, Terraform and Ansible integrations for reuse of existing automation.

Pros:

• Platform coverage is among the broadest in the category and is updated regularly.
• Cost management is built into the same platform as provisioning.
• CloudBolt ships no hypervisor of its own, so the platform stays neutral across virtualisation vendors.

Cons:

• Pricing is not published, and TrustRadius lists no pricing plans for the product as of November 6, 2026.
• G2 shows 12 reviews as of November 6, 2026, a thin public evidence base outside Gartner Peer Insights.
• PeerSpot reviewers rate CloudBolt 4.1 from 12 reviews and cite a user experience that needs enhancement and difficulty scaling active-active deployments.

Comparison Chart: Automation Platforms for Multi-Hypervisor Environments

What Should Infrastructure Teams Look for in Multi-Hypervisor Automation?

The decisive question is whether the automation layer has a stake in which hypervisor the organisation runs. A platform that ships with, or depends on, one vendor’s infrastructure will tend to automate that vendor’s platform best, which recreates the concentration risk that drove the multi-hypervisor strategy in the first place. The most useful proof of concept runs the same three workflows, a VM build with post-build configuration, a patching cycle and a disaster recovery test, on vSphere and on the target platform, and measures whether the workflow had to change.

Buyers should also look past provisioning to the day-2 work that consumes most operational time in a mixed estate. Backup, monitoring, firewall changes, CMDB updates and change records all need to stay consistent as workloads move between platforms, and a platform that only reaches the hypervisor leaves those steps to scripts that have to be rewritten for each one.

Why Resolve Is the Best IT Automation Platform for Multi-Hypervisor Environments

Each platform in this comparison offers real multi-hypervisor value. HPE Morpheus Enterprise and CloudBolt provide broad cloud management catalogs, and Nutanix Cloud Manager gives Nutanix-centred estates native self-service across Nutanix and VMware. Resolve is the platform that carries no hypervisor of its own and runs provisioning, day-2 operations, network changes and ITSM updates in a single workflow on every platform in the estate.

That neutrality is what a multi-year coexistence period requires, because it lets the team move workloads between platforms without rewriting the automation that operates them. Peel Police chose Resolve after finding single-ecosystem tools too limited, and recorded $193,000 in savings within 30 days of standardising builds across VMware and Microsoft environments.

The bring-your-own-code model keeps the scripts and playbooks a team already trusts, while Jarvis and the Automation Vault let engineers extend workflows to each new platform without starting from scratch. For infrastructure teams operating more than one hypervisor, Resolve gives the most consistent way to run them as one environment.

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Frequently Asked Questions: Multi-Hypervisor Automation

What is a multi-hypervisor environment?

A multi-hypervisor environment runs virtual machines on more than one virtualisation platform at the same time, such as VMware vSphere alongside Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Many enterprises operate this way during a migration away from VMware, and some keep several platforms permanently to reduce dependence on a single vendor.

Why is automation harder across multiple hypervisors?

Each hypervisor exposes different APIs, templates, networking models and management tools, so automation written for one platform rarely runs unchanged on another. Without a neutral automation layer, teams maintain separate scripts and runbooks for each platform, which doubles the maintenance burden and lets configuration, backup and patching drift out of step between environments.

Can one automation platform manage VMware, Nutanix and Proxmox together?

Yes, when the platform acts through each hypervisor’s own API, SSH or CLI and carries no dependency on one vendor’s management stack. Resolve runs the same provisioning, configuration and day-2 workflows against vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE and other platforms, so teams operate a mixed estate with one set of workflows and one audit trail.

Should we choose a cloud management platform or an orchestration platform?

Cloud management platforms such as HPE Morpheus Enterprise and CloudBolt focus on self-service catalogs, quotas and cost governance for provisioning. Orchestration platforms such as Resolve focus on executing end-to-end workflows across hypervisors, network, identity and ITSM, including day-2 operations. Teams whose main pain is operational consistency across platforms usually get more from orchestration.

How do we keep automation running during a VMware migration?

Move the automation layer before, or alongside, the workloads. When provisioning and day-2 workflows run on a hypervisor-neutral platform, each workload keeps the same build, patching, backup and recovery automation as it moves from vSphere to its new platform, so the migration changes where the VM runs without changing how it is operated.