Managing Virtual Machines with OpenQRM
Kris Buytaert
X-Tend
<kris.buytaert@x-tend.be>
Every virtualisation technique has its own management interface, its own gui, its own API. But only one tool manages multiple virtualisation techniques. And it isn't even a Virtualisation tool: OpenQRM.

OpenQRM is an open source systems management platform that automates enterprise data centers and keeps them running. OpenQRM gives you a framework from which you can deploy and boot different images on available (idle) resources. This way you can use the resources in your datacenter to the max. OpenQRM has a flexible plugin structure that enables integration with different other tools such as Nagios, HypericHQ, Webmin and many others. One of the nicest features of OpenQRM is partitioning. It is this partitioning technique that allows you to deploy multiple virtual machine instances in a farm, as if they just were a different idle resources. Today OpenQRM has support for different virtualization techniques such as Xen and VMware, but other technologies are supported from the community.


Kris Buytaert is Founder and CTO of X-Tend. He has consulting and development experience with different enterprise clients and government agencies. He is a contributor to the Linux Documentation Project and author of different publications. Kris is maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO. He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both HA and HPC), Virtualization and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test




Last modified: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:14:06 +0100