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FishOS - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

FishOS overview

What is FishOS?

FishOS® by Sardina Systems is an integrated OpenStack and Kubernetes platform, featuring highly scalable Ceph storage, and a range of key differentiating capabilities and functionalities to enable flexible, scalable, and efficient cloud data center operations.

FishOS has been proven at large production sites in a range of industries, including research, government, academic, and finance, with market-leading unique capabilities that won multiple awards including the prestigious DCD>Zettastructure Award for Open Data Centers, and the IDC HPC Innovation Excellence Award.

FishOS is an automation software addressing all three phases of the OpenStack lifecycle: Deployment, Operation, and Upgrade.

Deployment:

- Fast, flexible, fully remote lightweight deployer

- Zero-to-full-system-operation within 30 min

- Includes Ceph storage deployment

- High-availability configuration as default

Operation:

- Optimal live resources utilization via Placement Engine

- Rebalance system load without interruption with live-migration

- Optimal energy usage at all times via Power Engine

- Complete metrics analysis and data visualization for system health monitoring

- Flexible and configurable billing

Upgrade:

- Zero downtime upgrade

- Upgrade of the system after each new release of OpenStack

- Included in the license

Key benefits of using FishOS

Full life-cycle automation: FishOS is built as a fully automated OpenStack and Kubernetes cloud platform, with advanced automation encompassing the Deployment, Operation, and Upgrade phases.

Rapid deployment and reliable upgrades: FishOS features the highly flexible Deployer, to rapidly deploy full systems including OpenStack and Ceph. Upon completion of the deployment process, the full suite of Ops tools is ready for production operation. Later in the lifecycle, FishOS Upgrader uniquely provides a zero downtime upgrade.

AI Ops: FishOS is a market leader in AI Ops, with an advanced machine learning-powered Health Engine to provide preemptive system health insight.

Zero downtime Operations: Uptime and reliability are paramount to cloud operators. FishOS features a smart Health Manager and smooth zero downtime upgrade, auto-failover, disaster recovery, monitoring, and infrastructure integration to enable persistent uptime.

Deep insight: FishOS features functionalities to track and optimize the data center resource utilization beyond high-level parameters such as vCPUs, and requested memory.

Dynamically optimized data center: By optimizing workload across the cloud facility, operators can significantly reduce energy OpEx. FishOS dynamically optimizes data center energy consumption based on live metrics of OpenStack cloud workload — backed by the award-winning FishDirector technology.

Full-featured, pre-integrated: FishOS comes standard with functionalities that enterprises require, including auto-failover, disaster recovery, smooth upgrade path, monitoring, integration, and coexistence with existing infrastructure.

Highly scalable: FishOS is scalable to support stretched cloud environments, to allow flexible management of cloud environments spanning multiple geographically distributed sites from a single point.

Virtualized and Bare Metal, Accelerators: FishOS supports the management of virtualized and bare metal workloads, including integration with GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators for AI/ML workloads.

FishOS Billing: Seamlessly integrated suite of powerful tools designed to simplify billing report generation within the FishOS OpenStack environment, available at no extra cost to FishOS users.

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  • Likelihood to recommend9.6/10
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Who uses FishOS?

Based on 10 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Computer Hardware
Automotive
Computer Networking

Use cases

Cloud Management
Cloud Storage
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

FishOS's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from FishOS users:

Monitoring
Server monitoring
Service level agreement (sla) management
Data storage management
Cloud computing
File transfer

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Activity dashboard
API
Cost management
Data visualization
Performance management
Real-Time monitoring
Resource management
User management
Data migration
Capacity analytics
Data security
Database support
Network monitoring
Performance analysis

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FishOS support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk

Training options

Documentation
Webinars
Videos

FishOS FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of FishOS?

FishOS has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does FishOS support?

FishOS supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does FishOS offer an API?

Yes, FishOS has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does FishOS offer?

FishOS offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk

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