To our loyal fans and customers,
Let us begin by thanking everyone for their sincere interest in our ConVirt product line. The activity and interest over the last year has been staggering and the feedback we receive from our customers has been nothing less than amazing. We’re proud to serve our customers and we’re humbled by the impact we’re making on the day to day operations of managing opensource virtualization environments. Our goal is to continue to serve you and provide you with the latest and greatest technologies to make your job easier.
In just one short year we’ve had the opportunity to experience over 3,000 unique installations of ConVirt, over 800 requests for access to ConVirt Enterprise and hundreds of stories about how ConVirt is being used to manage virtualization environments in datacenters all over the world.
We’re only days away from the exciting release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise and shortly you will see even more and exciting announcements about our continued development as an organization.
We look to the future and we’re focused entirely on providing you with the most flexible, cost effective and heterogeneous virtualization and cloud management platform in the industry.
Today we are announcing the development of the Convirture Customer Advisory Council. With our Customer Advisory Council, our focus is to capture your feedback so we can maintain the best customer service possible and develop the most important features for you. The Convirture Customer Advisory Council will be integral to the future planning of our ConVirt suite of products. Membership will provide access to our engineering organization, previews of upcoming solutions, discounts on purchasing ConVirt Enterprise and much more.
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We want to thank each and every one of you for your continued interest in Convirture and look forward to our success together.
Sincerely,
Team Convirture
We are pleased to announce availability of first Patch Bundle for ConVirt 2.0. It fixes numerous issues reported by user community as well as few key enhancements. We recommend that all ConVirt 2.0 users update their environments.
Please visit here for details.
We are very pleased to introduce ConVirt 2.0 – the next major step up in open source virtualization management. The ConVirt 2.0 generation combines a flexible, open architecture, the highest level of management capabilities, and the industry’s most flexible pricing model. Built on a brand-new, 3-tier architecture, ConVirt 2.0 includes a highly interactive, web-based user interface, a new data repository, advanced automation, enterprise scalability, multi-user administration, a full suite of integration capabilities, and much more .
We are delivering ConVirt 2.0 in two editions – ConVirt 2.0 Open Source and ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise. Focusing on core management and advanced automation respectively, both editions benefit from ConVirt 2.0’s new, highly robust, scalable and open architecture while at the same time allowing organizations of any size to best match their individual needs.
ConVirt 2.0 Open Source (available now!) Building upon ConVirt 1.0, the leading management tool for open source virtualization, and benefiting from robust community testing and feedback during an extensive public beta, ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is finally here! ConVirt 2.0 Open Source dramatically improves upon its predecessor by delivering greater ease of use, accessibility as well as new features for automating every aspect of virtual machine lifecycle management including monitoring, configuration management, templates-based provisioning, basic automation, live migration and much more. ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is licensed under GPL and is free to download and use. Meanwhile, support from Convirture is always there when you need it. Learn more about ConVirt 2.0 Open Source here.
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise (coming soon) extends ConVirt 2.0 Open Source’s capabilities with advanced automation, scalability and extensive enterprise integration – necessary to run large scale or mission critical virtualization environments. Some feature highlights of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise include High Availability, Backup and Restore, Dynamic Resource Allocation, fine-grained Role Based Access Control, and many more. Learn more about ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise and the upcoming beta here.
With ConVirt 2.0, organizations considering Xen or KVM as open source alternatives to commercial virtualization platforms are no longer forced to compromise on manageability. ConVirt 2.0’s advanced automation, enterprise scalability and datacenter integration features now meet or exceed what’s available from proprietary platform vendors … and it’s all there without the vendor lock-in and excessive costs!
By choosing a combination of Xen and KVM with ConVirt 2.0 as the management solution, companies of all sizes can now reap the full benefits of server virtualization at the highest levels of flexibility and lowest total cost of ownership.
Learn more about ConVirt 2.0 here.
RedmonkTV recently put up a fantastic two part screencast series where Redmonk’s Micheal Cote talks with Arsalan Farooq and Jaydeep Marfatia (our CEO and EVP of Engineering respectively) about ConVirt. This is followed by a great walkthrough of some key features of ConVirt by Jaydeep, with Micheal asking his usual incisive and insightful questions.
In Micheal’s own words:
Virtualization is magic of IT shops, but as with any technology it creates it’s own unique set of management challenges. That’s why it was fun to sit down with Convirture’s Jaydeep Marfatia and Arsalan Farooq for this two part screencast and see how ConVirt tackles virtualization management issues.
The first part of the screencast is here: Part 1
The second part is here: Part 2
Folks, this one is not to be missed! Enjoy.
We are extremely pleased to announce availability of ConVirt v1.1. Some of the highlights of this release are:
Virtual Network Management
Support for creating isolated and NAT-based networks on managed hosts. Each virtual network can have a pre-defined IP range, with automatic DHCP provisioning of IP’s for all attached VM’s.
Automation using CLI (Preview Edition)
This release of ConVirt includes a preview version of the upcoming ConVirt Command Line Interface. With the ConVirt CLI, most common operations available via the ConVirt GUI may also be executed over the command line. This would enable users to easily script management operations across their ConVirt managed environment as well as integrate these operations with any pre-existing management scripts and processes.
Ability to add disks to running VM
This release adds ability to add disks to running Xen Virtual machines.
Additional Certified Configurations
RHEL 5.3, CentOS 5.3 and Ubuntu 9.04 are added to the list of supported distributions. For a complete list of supported configurations, please visit the supported configurations page.
Bug fixes
This release includes a number of fixes.
References
Here are some useful references about ConVirt.
You can download ConVirt 1.1 here.
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