Opensource Virtualization
Today information technology is a very important for small and large companies scale. Information technology is the most effective way to expand the business, why? As we know with internet we can provide information around the world within seconds, we can do transaction from one country to another quickly and easily and with internet we can do more beside that. So what relation with the IT Infrastructure for the company? Day by day and time by time according with the growth business need more storage capacity, more application development etc than the need IT infrastructure would be increased and the effect is the rising cost and electrical energy beside that carbon emissions would be increased.
How to solve the problems? Data Center Virtualization IT infrastructure is the answer beside the right data center design and use of energy-saving devices. Some opensource virtualization software can be used to build data center infrastructure and management a both license and open-source. For small company and low budget can use open source data center virtualization as alternative to reduce cost and make efficiency electrical energy, if you have budget you can use license virtualization software and management because with license you can will get more some benefit and futures for data center virtualization.
Opensource data center virtualization is software IT infrastructure for data center virtualization & management, below some opensource virtualization that can be used:
Vmware ESXi
Vmware ESXi is products from vmware, you can find product from their official site, before download the software you should register to www.vmware.com to get download links, beside that you can read complete documentation over there. I have used vmaware ESXi 4 with free license for some servers, although some futures not included on the free license I think for non critical server can work well, I call as opensource virtualization because it’s free.If you want more futures for critical data center you can buy enterprise.
Comvirt
Comvirt is products from convirture where this company have mission to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). Their products is ConVirt Open-Source, ConVirt Enterprise and ConVirt Enterprise Cloud. For more information is www.convirture.com. You can use opensource virtualization as alternative if you have low budget.
Opennebula
As opensource data center virtualization and management you can get some benefit, opennebula can be integrated with other virtualization like xen, vmware, kvm for your cloud. Beside command line you can configure it via web base with sunstone. Two options available for support is community support and commercial support. For more information just go to their official site http://opennebula.org
Openqrm
Openqrm focus on data center management platform, with openqrm you can manage more virtualization technology like Citrix XEN, XEN, kvm, openvz, lxc, virtualbox, vmware ESX(i) 4.1 /5. For installation openqrm you can find on my blog, and for more documentation and deep knowladge you can following this their site http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com
XCP
The new release when I write on this blog is XCP 1.5 beta where XCP 1.5 beta is opensource editon from citrix XenServer 6.0. On my lab I have used XCP 1.1 with quad core processor and ram 8 GB and I thing hardware requirement more lower than ESXi 4 ( need xeon cpu) but on my self opinion more vmware ESXi 4 more ease to configure and XCP 1.1 more some futures. For more information XCP you can find on www.xen.org. You can try this opensource virtualization
Openstack
Openstack, for the core projects is Compute, Object Storage and Image Service. Their have new release project, that is openstack Essex, focuses on quality, usability and extensibility across enterprise, service provider and high performance computing (HPC) deployment. You can get more project information, new release and documentation on their official site openstack.org.
Proxmox
Promox is opensource virtualiazation, beside it’s free we could build and make configuration easy. I have tried Promox VE 2 on my lab, I think it’s greats and easy to configure. If you want to use proxmox you can download opensource virtualization
Above some opensource virtualization and management for data center that you can use for free, for more detail about information and licenses you can go to their official site. And the last good luck with your lab.
