VIRTALUS

What VIRTALUS does

VIRTALUS (Virtalus LLC) is a Los Angeles-headquartered private cloud infrastructure company founded in 2015 that provides hyper-converged infrastructure services through its proprietary HyperCX platform, a fork of OpenNebula extended with modules for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, GPU virtualization, network functions virtualization, multi-tier application orchestration, and Kubernetes deployment. The platform is sold as a turn-key, vendor-neutral, licensing-free solution for on-premises private clouds, with an optional public cloud mode enabled through a WHMCS integration connector. The company monetizes via pay-as-you-go billing for RAM and storage (no utilization charges, unlimited bandwidth), one-time cluster sales, and subscription-based allocation-mode pricing through WHMCS, and it claims a 99.9999% SLA on resilient single-site designs.

Virtalus serves medium-to-large enterprises seeking on-prem private clouds more secure than public hyperscalers, cloud service providers that resell Virtalus infrastructure as branded public clouds via WHMCS, and healthcare organizations requiring HIPAA-compliant PHI handling. Geographic reach spans the USA, Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, with channel-enabled distribution through partners such as IDCloud, T5 Data Centers, and Hivelocity. Publicly named customers include Addcel, MasNegocio, and Luxerv V-Cloud, with Luxerv V-Cloud citing a 40% infrastructure cost reduction.

The go-to-market is primarily direct enterprise field sales with a website-driven Request Demo funnel, supplemented by a built-in HyperCX Marketplace for self-serve appliance downloads. The company has not disclosed material funding rounds, acquisitions, or leadership additions, and is independently owned with 11-50 employees. Leadership consists of co-founder Juan Soriano and executives Suresh Nihalani (COO) and Yovan Gutierrez (CIO).

Name

VIRTALUS

Legal name

Virtalus LLC

Website

https://virtalus.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

VIRTALUS is a Los Angeles-based cloud infrastructure provider that sells its proprietary HyperCX platform, a fork of OpenNebula, as turn-key on-premises private cloud and public cloud deployments for enterprises, healthcare organizations, and cloud service providers across seven countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDABADAD

HCI & Integrated Systems (Compute + Storage)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Compute Infrastructure (Servers, Virtualization, Containers)

SECONDARYHDABABAB

Virtualization & Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Management

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Private Cloud & Cloud Management Platforms

SECONDARYHDABAMAF

Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cloud & Data Center Infrastructure/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

SECONDARYHDACABAD

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Appliances

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Computing Hardware & Peripherals/Servers & Enterprise Compute Systems

Keywords

• Cloud infrastructure services
• Hyper-converged infrastructure
• Private cloud platform
• Virtualization management
• Disaster recovery solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cloud Infrastructure Services: Virtalus provides cloud infrastructure solutions through their HyperCX platform. They sell entire clusters and offer a pay-as-you-go model where customers pay for RAM and storage without utilization charges. Pricing is usage-dependent based on enterprise's consumption patterns.
2. Cluster Sales: Virtalus sells entire cloud clusters to enterprises as turn-key private cloud solutions. This includes on-prem private cloud deployments with vendor-neutral, licensing-free solutions.
3. WHMCS Public Cloud Billing: For public cloud deployments, Virtalus integrates with WHMCS to support both allocation mode (fixed monthly pricing for specified resources) and pay-as-you-go mode (variable pricing based on consumed resources).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Virtalus delivers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) cloud services through its HyperCX platform, built as a fork of OpenNebula. The company provides on-premises and public private cloud deployments for enterprises, with modular add-ons for backup, disaster recovery, GPU virtualization, network functions virtualization, and Kubernetes orchestration. Offerings are sold as turn-key clusters with optional usage-based billing and integrated monitoring.

Product overview

Virtalus offers the HyperCX Cloud platform with a modular architecture. The core HyperCX Cloud platform, delivered primarily through HyperCX Bento, provides cloud infrastructure for deploying and managing virtual machines and workloads with high availability. The platform is built on a fork of OpenNebula. Key add-on modules include: HyperCX Vault for backup solutions, HyperCX DR for disaster recovery, HyperCX GPU for graphics processing unit support, HyperCX NFV for network function virtualization (VPNs, load balancing, firewalls), HyperCX Services for multi-tier application management, and a Kubernetes Appliance for container orchestration. The portfolio supports on-premises private cloud deployments with optional public cloud capabilities through WHMCS integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HyperCX Cloud: Cloud platform solution for running and automating business workloads with high availability
• HyperCX Bento
• HyperCX miniBento
• HyperCX Vault
• HyperCX DR
• HyperCX GPU
• HyperCX NFV

Products and services

• HyperCX Bento Full-stack cloud infrastructure solution with a fully-redundant design providing high availability (HA) for application workloads. Sold as a turn-key private cloud cluster for enterprises seeking on-premises deployment more secure than public clouds.
• HyperCX miniBento Smaller-scale variant of the HyperCX Bento cloud solution, designed for environments with reduced infrastructure requirements while retaining the same cloud management capabilities.
• HyperCX Vault Full and incremental backup solution capable of storing backups outside the cloud infrastructure, powered by GlusterFS-based SAN storage optimized for HyperCX workloads.
• HyperCX DR Disaster recovery solution that backs up VM images from main clusters to remote clusters on a scheduled basis using delta transfers for efficient bandwidth usage and supports automated failback procedures.
• HyperCX GPU GPU virtualization solution enabling virtual machines to utilize Nvidia GPU cards for computationally demanding workloads such as scientific computing and machine learning.
• HyperCX NFV Network Functions Virtualization solution providing on-demand virtual network functions including StrongSwan-based site-to-site VPNs, OpenVPN client-based VPNs, HAProxy L4 load balancing, Nginx L7 load balancing with SSL certificate management, masquerading, and active-passive HA via VRRP/keepalived.
• Kubernetes Appliance Pre-configured Kubernetes cluster appliance with preinstalled MetalLB load balancer, supporting single-node and multinode deployments with automatic worker node synchronization.
• HyperCX pfSense Firewall and network security appliance providing enterprise-grade firewall capabilities for HyperCX cloud environments.
• HyperCX Beat Grafana-based monitoring dashboard providing visualization of fault, accounting, performance, and security metrics across the HyperCX cloud infrastructure.
• WHMCS Public Cloud Platform WHMCS connector and ready-to-deploy appliance that enables service providers to build public clouds on HyperCX with automated customer self-registration, resource quota management, and pay-as-you-go or allocation-mode billing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Infrastructure cost reduction of 40% for cloud service providers
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpenNebulacoreTechnology or IntegrationVirtalus maintains an active fork of OpenNebula as the core of their HyperCX cloud orchestration platform. OpenNebula is described as a simple, open source solution to build and manage Enterprise Clouds combining existing virtualization technologies with advanced features for multi-tenancy, automatic provision and elasticity.
• WHMCScoreTechnology or IntegrationVirtalus provides a HyperCX module connector for WHMCS, the world's leading web hosting automation platform. This enables automated user provisioning, quota management, and billing for public cloud deployments. Virtalus offers a ready-to-deploy WHMCS appliance from their marketplace.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• StarWind Software: Offers software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure (StarWind HCA) and VSAN alternatives, including free/community editions — directly comparable to Virtalus' software-first, vendor-neutral HCI approach.
• Nutanix: Leading pure-play hyperconverged infrastructure vendor offering compute, storage, and virtualization in an integrated stack for on-prem and hybrid deployments — the most direct large-scale competitor to Virtalus' HyperCX platform.
• Scale Computing: Provider of hyperconverged infrastructure appliances (HE150, HC3) targeting edge and mid-market customers with simplified, self-healing clusters — closely comparable in target segment and appliance-style delivery to HyperCX Bento.

Emerging players

• StorMagic: Provides HCI and edge computing solutions (SvSAN) for small datacenters and edge sites with two-node clustering — overlapping with Virtalus' focus on smaller-footprint, high-availability private cloud deployments.
• Zadara: Provides enterprise storage-as-a-service and cloud infrastructure deployed on-prem or at edge, serving service providers and enterprises with consumption-based economics — overlapping with Virtalus' CSP-focused offering.

Others

• OpenNebula: The open source cloud management platform on which Virtalus' HyperCX is built; comparable as the upstream ecosystem and an alternative for customers who prefer to run the community version directly.

Broad incumbents

• Dell Technologies VxRail: Dell's HCI appliance line jointly developed with VMware, targeting enterprise customers seeking turnkey hyperconverged solutions — comparable in appliance delivery model and target buyer.
• HPE SimpliVity: HPE's hyperconverged infrastructure platform offering integrated compute, storage, and data protection for enterprise virtualization — a broad incumbent comparable in feature scope to Virtalus' Bento + Vault + DR bundle.
• VMware (Broadcom) vSAN/vSphere: Dominant virtualization and HCI incumbent whose vSAN plus vSphere stack is the de facto standard that HyperCX is explicitly positioned against with its vendor-neutral, licensing-free alternative.
• Microsoft Azure Stack HCI: Microsoft's hyperconverged infrastructure offering for running hybrid workloads with Azure Arc integration — a large-platform incumbent competing for the same hybrid private cloud workloads Virtalus targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/VirtalusVM

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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