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About Self-service, remote installation of Windows, CentOS, ESXi and Ubuntu on real servers turns your data centre into a bare metal cloud. Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) provisioning with Windows, ESXi, Linux. Bare metal cloud with on-demand servers. Remote edge cluster operations. Infrastructure monitoring and discovery. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SALT, Juju integration. Super fast install from scratch. VMWare ESXi, Windows, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu. Custom images with pre-installed apps. Disk and network configuration. API-driven DHCP, DNS, PXE, IPAM. REST API for provisioning. LDAP user authentication. Role-based access control (RBAC). Hardware testing and commissioning. MAAS delivers the fastest OS installation times in the industry thanks to its optimised image-based installer. Works on all certified servers from any major vendor. Discovers servers in racks, chassis and data centre networks. Supports major system BMCs and chassis controllers.	About xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is an open source tool designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal servers and virtual machines. It offers comprehensive management capabilities for high-performance computing clusters, render farms, grids, web farms, online gaming infrastructures, clouds, and data centers. xCAT provides an extensible framework based on years of system administration best practices, enabling administrators to discover hardware servers, execute remote system management, provision operating systems on physical or virtual machines in both disk and diskless modes, install and configure user applications, and perform parallel system management. The toolkit supports various operating systems, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and CentOS, and is compatible with architectures such as ppc64le, x86_64, and ppc64. It integrates with management protocols like IPMI, HMC, FSP, and OpenBMC, facilitating remote console access.
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Enterprises, companies and IT departments interested in a bare metal cloud platform solution with on-demand servers for their data centres	Audience Administrators seeking a tool to manage their HPC clusters, data centers, and cloud infrastructures
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Supported
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Pricing $30 Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing Free Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported
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Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Canonical Founded: 2010 United Kingdom maas.io	Company Information xCAT Founded: 2024 xcat.org
Alternatives VMware ESXi Broadcom	Alternatives MAAS Canonical
xCAT	SafeKit Eviden
CentOS	Rocks
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Categories Bare Metal Server Supported Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Supported	Categories Cluster Management Supported

Integrations Airstack Supported Aiven for PostgreSQL Not Supported Ansible Supported CentOS Not Supported Chef Supported Cisco AnyConnect Supported IBM Cloud Supported IBM PowerVM Not Supported KVM Not Supported LDAP Supported MariaDB Not Supported MySQL Not Supported PostgreSQL Supported SALT Supported SQLite Not Supported Ubuntu Not Supported VMware Cloud Not Supported VMware ESXi Supported Verizon Cloud Supported Show More Integrations View All 16 Integrations	Integrations Airstack Not Supported Aiven for PostgreSQL Supported Ansible Not Supported CentOS Supported Chef Not Supported Cisco AnyConnect Not Supported IBM Cloud Not Supported IBM PowerVM Supported KVM Supported LDAP Not Supported MariaDB Supported MySQL Supported PostgreSQL Not Supported SALT Not Supported SQLite Supported Ubuntu Supported VMware Cloud Supported VMware ESXi Not Supported Verizon Cloud Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 12 Integrations
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