Convirture has released an enterprise edition of the open source ConVirt software that is designed to manage open source hypervisors, such as KVM and Xen.
The company said that its new edition includes advanced automation and scalability features necessary for running virtualised environments. It offers high availability, backup and recovery, storage and network automation, and enterprise-grade security.
In addition, it embodies an extensive cloud management feature set, which includes multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning and resource limiting, enabling IT organisations to offer infrastructure-as-a-service.
Convirture said that its ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt 2.0 Open Source product including: server pool-based management; templates-based provisioning; monitoring and configuration management; virtual machine administration; and 3-tier, standards-based architecture.
In addition, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise delivers scalability, automation, and private cloud management features that were previously available only for proprietary virtualisation platforms.
Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture, said: "That changes today as ConVirt 2.0’s advanced automation, private cloud management, enterprise scalability and datacentre integration features now meet or exceed what’s available from proprietary platform vendors.
"With ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, organisations considering Xen or KVM as open source alternatives to commercial virtualisation platforms are no longer forced to compromise on manageability. "
