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Virtualization Software – Wazisoft

Virtualization​

Virtualization Software

Following Broadcom’s (VMware) decision to significantly reduce its offerings, raise prices, and declare a market strategy centred solely on catering to the needs of its top 600 customers, many enterprise users who depended on VMware find themselves in a state of crisis. As they look for a replacement, many are not keen on becoming dependent on proprietary solutions, just so they can have the rug removed from under them again.

Open-source solutions address this risk, offer better performance and enterprises can be assured of stable products that will never adopt a business model that is detrimental to their operations.

To meet your Enterprise Virtualization needs, our solution of choice is Proxmo

Proxmox

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.

The enterprise-class features and a 100% software-based focus make Proxmox VE the perfect choice to virtualize your IT infrastructure, optimize existing resources, and increase efficiencies with minimal expense. You can easily virtualize even the most demanding of Linux and Windows application workloads, and dynamically scale computing and storage as your needs grow, ensuring that your data center adjusts for future growth.

Proxmox Features

Proxmox Virtual Environment is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses a custom Linux Kernel. The Proxmox VE source code is free, released under the GNU Affero General Public License, v3 (GNU AGPLv3). Using open-source software guarantees full access to all functionality, as well as a high level of reliability and security.

Server Virtualization

Proxmox employs two types of virtualization;

1. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

2. Linux Containers (LXC)

Central Management

To manage all tasks of your virtual data center, you can use the central, web-based management interface. The whole functionality of the web interface is also accessible via CLI or REST API, which can be used to automate tasks.

Clustering

While many people start with a single node, Proxmox Virtual Environment can scale out to a large set of clustered nodes. The cluster stack is fully integrated and ships with the default installation.

With the integrated live/online migration feature, you can move running virtual machines from one Proxmox VE cluster node to another, without any downtime or noticeable effect from the end-user side.

To simplify the management of a cluster, you can carry out maintenance tasks cluster-wide, from any node.

High Availability (HA) Cluster

A multi-node Proxmox VE Cluster enables the creation of highly available virtual servers. The Proxmox VE HA Cluster is based on proven Linux HA technologies, providing stable and reliable HA service.

Networking

Proxmox VE’s networking capabilities below enable responsive and adaptable networks that can scale according to your business needs;

  •  Software-Defined Network (SDN)
  • Linux Networking Stack

Flexible Storage Options

In the Proxmox, you can add the following storage types:

Local;

  • LVM Group
  • Directory (storage on an existing filesystem)
  • ZFS

Network storage types;

  • LVM Group (network backing with iSCSI targets)
  • iSCSI target
  • NFS Share
  • SMB/CIFS
  • Ceph
  • Direct to iSCSI LUN

Hyperconverged Environment

Proxmox VE unifies your compute and storage systems, that is, you can use the same physical nodes within a cluster for both computing (processing VMs and containers) and replicated storage. Separate storage networks (SANs) and connections via network attached storage (NAS) disappear. With the integration of Ceph, an open source software-defined storage platform, Proxmox VE has the ability to run and manage Ceph storage directly on the hypervisor nodes.

Backup/Restore

Backups are a basic requirement for any sensible IT environment. The Proxmox VE platform provides a fully integrated solution, using the capabilities of each storage and each guest system type.

Proxmox Backup Server Integration

Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise-class backup solution, that is capable of backing up VMs, containers, and physical hosts. Support for this is fully integrated into Proxmox VE, meaning you can seamlessly back up and restore guests using the same common interface that the other storage types use.

Authentication

Proxmox offers two types of authentication;

1. Local Role-based administration

2. Authentication realms e.g. LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory

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