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With ConVirt, you no longer need to dedicate scarce resources to writing custom management scripts and trying to keep up with low-level differences between virtualization platforms. With a unified interface and consistent feature set across open source platforms, ConVirt lets you focus on proactively managing your open source virtualized infrastructure to meet the demands of your business.

Manage the complete lifecycle of virtual machines

ConVirt lets you fully administer, configure and monitor all the virtual machines in your open source virtualization deployment from a single console. For example, you can create, start, stop, snapshot, restore, backup, migrate and de-commission virtual machines right from the ConVirt dashboard. At the same time, if one virtual machine is running out of processing power, while another is not fully utilized, ConVirt lets you quickly re-allocate computing resources.

Easily manage server pools

In order to take advantage of the agility introduced by virtualization, you need to uniformly manage pools of servers according to IT policies and resource constraints. ConVirt simplifies server pool management by letting you monitor, provision, and configure virtual machines at the server pool level. For example, ConVirt summarizes key monitoring information across a server pool, which allows you to apply pool-wide configuration and provisioning policies, and lets you associate shared storage with a pool of servers.

Rapidly provision with templates

ConVirt takes a template-based approach to server provisioning, letting you standardize your virtualized environments. You can easily customize the out-of-box templates or create new ones based on your own reference images or those of 3rd party virtual appliances. In just a few minutes, you can associate shared storage, define network parameters, and allocate CPU and memory to a template. Once you have a template defined, you can provision it onto a new or existing server with a single click.

Optimize your deployment with intelligent virtual machine placement

When provisioning a new virtual machine, it is important to understand which server is the best candidate to host the additional workload. However, as the number of servers grows, determining resource utilization across servers gets increasingly difficult. ConVirt eliminates this time-consuming and error-prone task by automatically identifying the best placement of the virtual machine within the server pool, based on performance and resource utilization.

Download and deploy virtual appliances

ConVirt has an integrated appliance catalog browser that detects ready-to-deploy virtual appliances from a growing number of leading 3rd party appliance vendors. You can browse the catalog of appliances – fully-configured application images – and download virtual appliances right from the ConVirt dashboard. You can also publish any internal appliances and make them immediately available for provisioning with ConVirt.

Live migrate virtual machines with a simple drag-and-drop

ConVirt lets you move live virtual machines between hosts with a simple drag-and-drop operation – while they are running, without interrupting their operations. This allows you to re-allocate physical resources to virtual machines and balance the workload without interrupting operations. You can also migrate a group of virtual machines as a whole, which is useful if you need to upgrade a server or bring it down for maintenance. Whether you migrate a single virtual machine or a whole set of virtual machines, and whether you migrate them live or cold, you migrate them with a single drag-and-drop operation!

Monitor availability and performance

As soon as a virtual machine is deployed, ConVirt automatically collects a comprehensive set of availability, performance and utilization metrics for CPU, memory, storage, and network I/O. All of the monitoring information is presented at multiple levels – individual virtual machine, physical server, server pool, and enterprise – letting you quickly identify bottlenecks, compare performance between servers, and immediately re-allocate resources and adjust capacity.

Configure and monitor storage for server pools

ConVirt lets you associate shared NAS/SAN storage topologies with server pools. Once storage is configured at the server pool level, all new virtual machines will inherit the same storage settings. At the same time, ConVirt automatically tracks storage usage across server pools, letting you monitor resource consumption in real-time and more easily plan for capacity.

Deploy ConVirt quickly with its agentless architecture

Unlike other solutions, ConVirt does not require that you deploy a software agent on the servers being managed. By eliminating the need to deploy software on the managed servers, ConVirt requires minimal effort to setup and install and can be rolled out very quickly.