Virtual machines
Enterprise
Virtualization
Enterprise virtualization has gotten expensive, complex, and harder to license every year. Starlight replaces legacy virtualization platforms without making you refactor a single virtual machine.
Your Windows and Linux workloads run unchanged. Your storage arrays, your networking, your backup tools, your monitoring stack all keep working the way they do today.
No redesign
Replace the platform without re-architecting the systems that surround it.
No forklift migration
Start with a single host. Migrate incrementally at the pace your team is comfortable with.
No per-core licensing
Predictable pricing. Capacity scales without cost penalties.
Run your virtual machines exactly as they are.
Your workloads do not need to change. Neither does the infrastructure around them.
- Full support for existing Windows and Linux guests
- UEFI and Secure Boot for trusted VM initialization
- Snapshots, clones, resize, and live migration
- PCI passthrough, SR-IOV, and GPU passthrough for performance-sensitive workloads
- Built-in automation for Windows and Linux: monitoring agents, logging, and custom applications.
Everything your team already operates, without adding new complexity.
Storage that works with your existing arrays.
You already have a storage strategy. Starlight fits into it. Connect to the block and file storage your team already operates, with optional object storage backing for redundancy and secure encryption at rest.
- Connects to your existing block and file storage
- Object storage backing with redundancy and encryption at rest
- Encryption with operationally safe key rotation
- Snapshots and checkpoints for safe rollbacks
If your storage vendor supports enterprise Linux, it works with Starlight.
Modern networking.
Your switching, routing, and segmentation already work. Starlight fits into it. Attach VMs directly to your existing network without translation layers or proprietary virtual switches that demand new licensing and new operational models.
- Connects directly to your existing networks and VLANs
- Flexible attachment options for every common topology
- Enterprise DNS integration without re-architecting name resolution
- High-performance guest networking for demanding workloads
- Conflict detection and repair built into the platform
If your network team can run it today, Starlight runs on it.
Built for modern operations teams.
Your runbooks, automation, and observability stack already work. Starlight fits into it. Standards-based integration surfaces let your team operate the platform with the tools they already run, instead of paying for a tooling refresh alongside the platform change.
- Industry-standard metrics ready to feed your existing dashboards and alerting
- Built-in log and metric forwarding to any SIEM or observability backend
- Full automation through declarative infrastructure-as-code and scripting
- Backup ecosystem support coming for major enterprise vendors
You are not locking into a new ecosystem. You are moving onto the one that already runs the rest of your enterprise Linux estate.
Designed for low-risk adoption.
Replacing a virtualization platform is high-risk if it forces architectural change. Starlight is built so it does not.
- Your VMs run unchanged
- Your storage and networking stay in place
- Your automation and processes continue to work
- Your team's existing virtualization skills transfer directly
Start with a single host. Migrate incrementally. Adopt at the pace your operations team is comfortable with.
Live migration without downtime.
Move running workloads between hosts when you need to. Patch, rebalance, or retire a host without scheduling a maintenance window for the workloads it hosts.
- Move VMs between hosts while they are running
- Use the storage and network designs you already operate
- No proprietary cluster fabric required
Service mesh networking.
Modern service-mesh capabilities for VM workloads, not just containers. Describe what should be reachable, from where, and under what TLS policy. The platform compiles intent into firewall rules and an application-aware gateway, with no sidecar to manage and no separate mesh control plane to license.
- Identity-aware policy enforcement in front of every workload
- Declarative network intent compiled into firewall rules and an L7 gateway with TLS or mutual TLS termination
- Validated and previewed before any change affects traffic
- One policy model across VMs and containers
Security that goes beyond the hypervisor.
Most virtualization platforms stop at the VM boundary. Starlight extends protection across the whole stack.
- Confidential computing with AMD SEV, SEV-ES, SEV-SNP, and Intel TDX. VM data encrypted while in-use.
- Hardware attestation for trusted VM launches
- Immutable, hardened host with STIG and FIPS alignment
- Secure Boot enforcement chained from firmware to guest
- Quantum random number generation from Qrypt and post-quantum cryptographic algorithms built into the platform
Security is built in. Nothing layered on after the fact.
Runtime protection inside the VM.
Starlight extends visibility and enforcement into the guest itself.
- Process-level monitoring and execution control
- Enforcement of authorized software execution
- File system access controls for sensitive data
- Network restrictions to prevent unauthorized communication
Preconfigured agents. No separate tooling. Protection active from first boot.
One platform. One license.
Compute, networking, storage, security, lifecycle management, and operations console. All included. Traditional virtualization platforms charge you more as you grow. Starlight does not.
- No per-core or per-socket licensing
- No quotas on the number or type of VMs you can run
- No bundled SKUs that force you to buy what you do not use
- Simple node-based pricing, one node equals one subscription
Predictable pricing. Full capability. Scale without cost penalties.