Question 1

What is Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO)?

Accepted Answer

VMO is a feature of Spectro Cloud Palette that allows organizations to run virtual machine workloads natively inside Kubernetes clusters—on bare metal, at the edge, or in air-gapped environments. It lets you manage VMs and containers side by side with a unified operating model.

Question 2

What problems does VMO solve?

Accepted Answer

VMO eliminates the need to run separate stacks for containers and VMs, reducing complexity, inefficiencies, and TCO. It consolidates infrastructure and operational models by enabling Kubernetes-native VM management.

Question 3

How does VMO help reduce VMware dependency?

Accepted Answer

VMO helps organizations move away from vSphere by enabling VMs to run directly in Kubernetes. It includes a Virtual Machine Migration Assistant to streamline the migration of VMs from VMware vSphere to Palette.

Question 4

How is VMO activated in Palette?

Accepted Answer

VMO is activated by adding the VMO Pack to a Cluster Profile in Spectro Cloud Palette. Once deployed, users can manage VMs from the Palette UI using the same policies, automation, and RBAC settings applied to containers.

Question 5

What features does VMO support?

Accepted Answer

VMO includes support for live migration, VM snapshots, cloning, auto-balancing, backups, maintenance mode for nodes, and more—all inside Kubernetes. It treats VMs as first-class citizens in the cluster.

Question 6

Why choose Spectro Cloud Palette for VMs?

Accepted Answer

Palette offers the easiest and most flexible way to deploy and manage VMs and containers together. It provides a production-grade, declarative Kubernetes environment with simplified setup, multicluster support, RBAC, integrations, and migration tools—all centrally managed.