Digital Networks Unveils Openvirt

1st September 2009

Today sees the first publicly available release of Openvirt.

Openvirt provides a full virtualization platform for Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD virtual machines.

Features include:

• Open source commercial quality virtualization
• Completely free of license fees
• Full virtualization of unmodified operating systems
• Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD guest support
• Live migration - even between hosts with completely different CPUs
• Integration with iSCSI, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand SANs
• Oracle's OCFS2 and Red Hat's GFS filesystems for shared storage
• Support for most networks including 10 Gbit Ethernet and InfiniBand
• Libvirt API supports a variety of 3rd party management tools
• Support of openSUSE and SLES appliances created with SUSE Studio

For back-end storage for the virtual machines, the platform offers a wide variety of options. If it works with Linux, it works with Openvirt. This offers a degree of flexibility not offered by closed source virtualization platforms.

Openvirt has been in development since November 2008. It is available at zero cost with a selection of AMD and Intel servers.

Full details of Openvirt

About DNUK
DNUK builds storage and virtualization systems. Our platforms focus on technical solutions and are designed to reduce your costs and simplify management. Since 1998 we've been building Linux computers and we offer standards-based platforms that integrate with Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac networks.