May 25, 2010 : Digital Networks Releases Openvirt 2.0

📅 May 25, 2010 - Company's new product provides a full virtualization platform for Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD virtual machines.

Digital Networks, a provider of storage and virtualization systems, today announced the release of Openvirt 2.0. The company claims that Openvirt provides a full virtualization platform for Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD virtual machines.

It explains that Openvirt provides commercial quality virtualization that is completely free of license fees. A web based control panel makes for easy management. Full virtualization of unmodified operating systems includes support for Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD virtual machines. The company further explains that live migration is supported even between hosts with completely different CPUs. A high availability service will automatically restart virtual machines which were running on a physical host that failed. Integration with iSCSI, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand SANs is supported. Most networks including 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand are supported.

It mentions that Openvirt is now based on Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS. This is supported until April 2015. The company adds that full details of Openvirt are available at http://www.dnuk.com/solutions/virtualization/virtualization-openvirt.php.

According to the company, Release 2.0 platform components include:

Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS base OS
Linux kernel 2.6.33
QEMU-KVM 0.12.3
Libvirt 0.8.0
Control Panel Release 11

The company avers that Release 2.0 includes the below new features:

High availability service
Kernel Samepage Merging for reduced memory usage
Guests disk usage monitor
Centralized SQL server for monitoring records
Full system logging
Power distribution units support
Cluster test
Pre-built templates for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu
Detailed template creation tutorials
Batch cloning
Release check service
Plus many minor other and refinements

"Not only can Openvirt save your organization serious money in license fees, it also gives you real access to your data." said Lee Chisnall, CTO of Digital Networks. "There are no proprietary control panels restricting access to your data. The open design of the platform allows you to build completely bespoke solutions."

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