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Products: ConVirt Enterprise

ConVirt Enterprise extends ConVirt Open Source with the advanced automation and scalability features necessary for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments. ConVirt Enterprise allows you to manage thousands of hosts and virtual machines in a highly scalable and secure fashion with enterprise-grade security and advanced alerting and notification capabilities. By delivering high availability, backup and recovery, dynamic workload management, enterprise integration, and storage and network automation, ConVirt Enterprise enables you to meet and exceed your service levels while using your infrastructure in the most efficient way.  

 

When you choose either Xen or KVM combined with ConVirt Enterprise as the infrastructure management solution, you gain the highest level of manageability at the lowest total cost of ownership, while at the same time eliminating the vendor lock-in associated with relying on the same vendor for both the virtualization platform and management.

Below is a summary of the key automation and scalability features available with the ConVirt Enterprise product.

Dynamic Workload Management

ConVirt Enterprise enables you to take full advantage of the agility introduced by virtualization.   You can define high-level policies, such as “run the datacenter in the power saving mode” or “distribute load evenly across the server pool”, and ConVirt Enterprise will automatically re-allocate resources to meet your business objectives.   With dynamic workload management, you can meet and exceed your service levels, while utilizing your infrastructure more efficiently.

High availability

ConVirt Enterprise ensures that your mission-critical applications are always up and running by delivering a comprehensive high availability feature set.

• Virtual machine failover
  ConVirt Enterprise continuously monitors the status of all of the virtual machines configured for high availability and automatically restarts them in case of failure, making sure that you minimize the downtime associated with operating system crashes.
• Physical server failover
  Whenever ConVirt Enterprise detects that a physical server is down, it will automatically restart all of the virtual machines on a different server in the server pool. When setting up high availability, you can dedicate a standby server to use for failover or you can instruct ConVirt Enterprise to use its intelligent virtual machine placement capabilities, to optimize placements based on your pre-defined business objectives.

Backup and recovery

ConVirt Enterprise introduces a backup and recovery feature set, helping you successfully recover from planned and unplanned outages.

• Scheduled backups
  ConVirt Enterprise provides backup scheduling capabilities, enabling you to specify which virtual machines should be backed up and how often. You can select individual virtual machines or configure settings at a server pool level, indicate specific backup times or optimize large-scale operations by specifying backup windows, such as "every night" or "every Sunday".
• On-demand backup
  Whenever you are making changes to a virtual machine, it is critical to be able to take a snapshot, to make sure that you can revert to the last working state. With ConVirt Enterprise, you can backup virtual machines on-demand with just a click of a button.
• Restore
  Restoring a virtual machine cannot be easier with ConVirt Enterprise. You can revert to either the last known state or any of the earlier backups. Since ConVirt Enterprise backs up both virtual machine state and storage, you are guaranteed to bring up the virtual machine in a consistent state.

Storage and network automation

ConVirt Enterprise significantly streamlines the error-prone and time-consuming tasks of configuring network and storage in a virtualized environment.

• Network Configuration
  ConVirt Enterprise provides a centralized interface for managing your virtual networks.You can define virtual host private networks or VLANs that span multiple servers in the server pool, and let ConVirt Enterprise do the required configuration, such as network bridge setup.
• Storage configuration
  Standardizing storage across a server pool is critical to enabling virtual machine migration. ConVirt Enterprise significantly simplifies this task by automating configuration of all storage types, including NFS, iSCSi, Fibre Channel, AOE and LVM. All you need to do is associate storage resources with a server pool, and ConVirt Enterprise will automatically configure each physical server within the pool to access the shared storage.

Fine-grained access control

ConVirt Enterprise supports role-based access control, allowing you to share responsibility in a scalable way while maintaining full accountability. Based on their roles, users get automatically assigned privileges and access to managed entities. At the same time, all user actions are continuously audited, letting you keep track of the changes in your environment.

• LDAP support
  ConVirt Enterprise simplifies user administration by supporting LDAP-based authentication and role creation, ensuring that all of ConVirt privileges are consistent with your corporate policies.

Alerting and notification

ConVirt Enterprise helps you scale your virtualization environment by enabling alerting and notification capabilities. You no longer need to continuously monitor the ConVirt Enterprise screen for failures. Instead, you can setup alerts and notification, and ConVirt Enterprise will automatically send an email to the on-call administrators when issues occur.

Enterprise Integration

ConVirt Enterprise provides a full suite of integration capabilities, including an open repository, command line interface, and programmatic APIs. You can easily integrate ConVirt Enterprise with other tools, write scripts to perform batch operations, or run custom reports against the ConVirt Enterprise repository.

ConVirt Open Source Features

In addition to the scalability and advanced automation functionality outlined above, ConVirt Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt Open Source product, such as:

• 3-tier, standards-based architecture
• Server pool-based management
• Templates-based provisioning
• Monitoring and configuration management
• Comprehensive virtual machine administration

How to Buy

ConVirt Enterprise is a commercially licensed product. Please contact sales to learn more about how ConVirt Enterprise can help you manage your virtualized data center. You can also download a 30-day Free Trial here.