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ConVirt provides enterprise-class management of open source virtualization platforms, making open source virtualization an extremely viable and cost-effective choice for enterprises. ConVirt lets you manage the complete lifecycle of Xen and KVM virtualization platforms from a central, GUI dashboard. With sophisticated template-based provisioning, centralized monitoring, configuration management and administration, IT administrators can now automate the entire virtual machine lifecycle on open source platforms. ConVirt is an open source product backed by commercial, enterprise-class support, so you get the best of both worlds: a sophisticated, commercially-backed solution that is also highly cost effective.

The virtualization management challenge

Before ConVirt, companies who wanted to gain the benefits of server virtualization had to choose between the cost of purchasing commercial virtualization platforms, or the resource-intensive, error-prone process of managing open source virtualization platforms manually, using a patchwork of custom scripts and a command line interface. While the Xen and KVM open source platforms deliver the best price-performance, and the convenience of being shipped with major Linux distributions, until now they have lacked the management tools to make them viable for production deployments. With ConVirt, open source virtualization platforms are now an extremely viable and cost-effective choice for data center consolidation, development testing, and other enterprise production deployments.

Realize the promise of open source virtualization

ConVirt puts virtualization within reach of organizations of any size and budget by equipping open source virtualization platforms with enterprise-grade management capabilities. Whether you are using virtualization to build an internal “cloud,” host production applications, or test development releases in your QA lab, ConVirt lets you realize the lowest total cost of ownership for open source virtualization:

• As an open source product, ConVirt is free to download and use.
• ConVirt manages both Xen and KVM, shipped with commercial or community Linux distributions, from a single console. This means you don’t need to spend time learning and using multiple tools, and you don’t need to understand the low level differences between virtualization platforms. Whether you have standardized on a single virtualization platform, or need to manage multiple platforms from a single console, ConVirt does the job.
• ConVirt provides full lifecycle management, letting you monitor, configure, administer, and provision virtual machines from a single intuitive dashboard. Tasks that used to be time-consuming and error-prone, such as adding storage capacity, migrating virtual machines or provisioning new servers, are completed with a few simple clicks in the ConVirt console.
• Virtual machines do not exist in isolation. Instead, they are part of existing network and storage topologies that are critical to successful deployments of virtual infrastructure. ConVirt gives you visibility into the storage and network layers - letting you troubleshoot more easily and plan resources more confidently.
• A large community has tested and debugged ConVirt, and has experience using ConVirt you can leverage. This community is yours to tap into at no cost, through our active user Forums.
• ConVirt was built for “supportability,” that is, it was designed to minimize your need for support. Our online help is there to guide you if you have questions, and we have full user documentation, an installation manual, an image builder guide, and developer guides on plugins, packaging and more. We also have “HOWTOs” and FAQs posted on our group-editable wiki that are continuously updated.
• If you need support, it is waiting for you. Convirture provides a range of support options for ConVirt users. You have the peace of mind that support will be there if you need it. If you have an issue, you can get the fastest time-to-resolution by contacting the Convirture support team.

With a large user community and the commercial backing of Convirture, companies large and small use ConVirt as the strategic solution to a variety of problems. With the full set of capabilities needed by administrators, along with commercial support options, ConVirt makes open source virtualization a viable alternative for enterprises – and the one with the lowest total cost of ownership.