Who is ravello systems?
Ravello Systems is a cloud infrastructure platform provider that enables enterprises to run complex, multi-VM application environments on public clouds for development, testing, and lab use without modification.
- Cloud-based encapsulation and hosting of existing multi-VM application environments on public clouds (cloud infrastructure).
- Overlay networking and Software Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities for complex application topologies across cloud environments (network virtualization).
- Nested virtualization technology allowing unmodified VMware or KVM-based workloads to run on public cloud infrastructure (virtualization).
- Application blueprinting, cloning, and versioning features for repeatable dev/test and lab environments (environment automation).
- Support for enterprise use cases such as development and testing, training labs, sales demos, and Privacy Operations Center (POC) environments on public clouds (cloud dev/test and labs).
Show more
More About ravello systems
Ravello Systems provides a cloud platform that allows organizations to take existing multi-VM applications, including those built for on-premises (on-prem) hypervisors, and run them on public cloud infrastructure for dev/test, training, and lab use cases without changing the application, its network configuration, or storage layout.
The company’s technology uses nested virtualization (virtualization) to run VMware or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) workloads on top of public cloud compute instances while preserving the original virtual machines and their configurations, which reduces the need for refactoring or re-architecting applications before moving them into cloud-based dev/test environments.
Ravello Systems also implements an overlay networking (network virtualization) layer that recreates complex L2 and L3 network topologies, including multiple subnets, routing rules, and services, on top of the underlying public cloud network, enabling application environments that depend on specific network layouts to operate in the cloud as they do on premises.
Using Ravello Systems, enterprises can create application blueprints (environment automation) that capture full-stack configurations, including VMS, networks, storage, and policies, and then clone, version, and share these blueprints for repetitive tasks such as regression testing, training classes, or distributed proof-of-concept environments across teams and regions.
The platform is positioned for use with public clouds (cloud infrastructure) and is often applied where organizations want to extend on-prem data center environments into cloud-based dev/test labs while keeping production workloads unchanged, effectively creating an application-centric abstraction over the underlying cloud provider resources.
From a marketplace categorization standpoint, Ravello Systems fits into cloud infrastructure and platform services with focus on virtualization, Network Virtualization (NV), and environment automation for dev/test and lab workloads, providing capabilities adjacent to cloud DevOps tooling, test environment management, and virtual lab platforms used by enterprise development, QA, training, and pre-sales engineering teams.
Our description of ravello systems. Updated December 2025.
