We are pleased to announce the addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 to our list of Certified Configurations for both Xen and KVM. Check out the full list at Certified Configurations
Here are some key ConVirt features. Visit Features Page for more information.
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.
"Can I clone a VM ?"
"I have spent time coming up with a perfect image (gold image), how can I use ConVirt to provision VMs from it ?"
As I heard quite a few similar queries, I thought it might be useful to have blog entry that explains it. Apart from some differences between VM Cloning and using a reference image, both boil down to having pre-cooked disk(s) that are ready for creating more VMs from it. It is assumed that the environment would use DHCP and other vm specific customizations would be carried out on first boot.
As ConVirt is built with very flexible provisioning scheme, it only takes few simple steps to achieve this.
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.
We are hard at work defining the next major iteration of ConVirt. There are several options on the table, including (but not limited to) our next generation architecture, a web-based interface, as well as many other cool new features. However, before we finalize anything, we’d like to have the community weigh in.
We’ve started a new topic in the user forums specifically for this. So, hop on over to this thread and tell us what is important to you, what you’d like to see in the next version of ConVirt, as well as anything else you’d like us to keep in mind as we shape the release.
Lets see those wish lists!
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