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Products: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise extends ConVirt 2.0 Open Source with the advanced automation and scalability features necessary for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments. ConVirt 2.0 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, enterprise integration, and storage and network automation, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables you to meet and exceed your service levels while using your infrastructure in the most efficient way.  

 

And when you are ready to move beyond virtualized infrastructure management towards a hosted or private cloud model, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise has you covered. By delivering multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting, and virtual appliance catalogues, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables you to offer infrastructure-as-a-service, while ensuring full isolation and compliance with corporate policies. And, of course, many of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise’ powerful features, such as high availability and backup and recovery, are available to your cloud deployment, enabling you to provide higher value, more differentiated levels of service to your clients.

 

When you choose either Xen or KVM combined with ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise as the infrastructure and private cloud 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 2.0 Enterprise product.

High availability

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise ensures that your mission-critical applications are always up and running by delivering a comprehensive high availability feature set.

• Virtual machine failover
  ConVirt 2.0 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 2.0 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 2.0 Enterprise to use its intelligent virtual machine placement capabilities, to optimize placements based on your pre-defined business objectives.

Backup and recovery

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise introduces a backup and recovery feature set, helping you successfully recover from planned and unplanned outages.

• Scheduled backups
  ConVirt 2.0 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 2.0 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 2.0 Enterprise. You can revert to either the last known state or any of the earlier backups. Since ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise backs up both virtual machine state and storage, you are guaranteed to bring up the virtual machine in a consistent state.

Private Cloud Management

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables you to turn your virtualized infrastructure into a private, infrastructure-as-a-service cloud in a scalable and secure way.

• Full Multi-Tenant Security
  ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise delivers fine-grained, role-based access control, enabling you to share your infrastructure resources among multiple clients while ensuring full isolation. Each client gets access to the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise’ highly interactive web console and can only see the server, storage, and network resources that have been allocated to them.
• Delegated Control
  ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise gives you full flexibility in choosing the extent of control you want to delegate to your clients. Whether you choose to pre-configure everything and give the client a view-only screen, or dedicate computing resources and let the client create, provision, and manage custom applications, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise has you covered.
• Scheduled Provisioning
  ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise allows you to automate the build-out and tear-down of virtual infrastructures based on a pre-defined schedule or timetable. Whether you wish to fine-tune the utilization of your physical infrastructure in a demanding, multi-tenant environment, or simply wish to ensure service availability on your client's timetable, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise's scheduled provisioning feature makes the task effortless.
• Resource Limiting
  ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables you to limit the computing and storage resources that your cloud clients can use, ensuring that they do not go above the allocated quota.
• Virtual Appliance Catalogue
  As a cloud administrator, you can create pre-certified virtual appliances that comply with corporate standards and publish them effortlessly to your cloud users. ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise allows you download appliances from industry-leading appliance vendors or create your own based on reference images.

Storage and network automation

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise significantly streamlines the error-prone and time-consuming tasks of configuring network and storage in a virtualized environment.

• Network Integration
  ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise provides a centralized interface for managing your virtual networks. You can define virtual host private networks or integrate VLAN's that span multiple servers in the server pool, and let ConVirt 2.0 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 2.0 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 2.0 Enterprise will automatically configure each physical server within the pool to access the shared storage.

Fine-grained access control

ConVirt 2.0 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.

Alerting and notification

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise helps you scale your virtualization environment by enabling alerting and notification capabilities. You no longer need to continuously monitor the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise screen for failures. Instead, you can setup alerts and notification, and ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise will automatically send an email to the on-call administrators when issues occur.

Enterprise Integration

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise provides a full suite of integration capabilities, including an open repository, command line interface, and programmatic APIs. You can easily integrate ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise with other tools, write scripts to perform batch operations, or run custom reports against the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise repository.

ConVirt 2.0 Open Source Features

In addition to the scalability and advanced automation functionality outlined above, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt 2.0 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 2.0 Enterprise is a commercially licensed product. Please contact sales to learn more about how ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise can help you manage your virtualized data center and private cloud environments.

You can also get started with ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise by purchasing the ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition or downloading the 30-day Free Trial.

• ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition
  The ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Starter Edition is specifically designed for small and medium businesses, or larger enterprises that need a test bed for pre-production deployments before rolling-out ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise to the entire data center. The Starter Edition is licensed for up to three managed hosts and an unlimited number of virtual machines. Four enterprise support incidents are included with the Starter Edition and additional support can be purchased on a per incident basis. You can purchase the Starter Edition using our Online Store.
• ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise 30-day Free Trial
  The ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise 30-day Free Trial enables you to try out ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise for 30 days. You can manage up to three hosts and can upgrade to the full version at any time. You can download the 30-day Free Trial here.