Sunday, April 20, 2008

Virtualization for linux takes a step forward

www.enomalism.com

Hopefully it works as advertised. Looks like it has some features sorely missing from the opensource, management of multiple Xen Servers.

The interesting points:

# Create a cloud of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption.
# Simple easy to use web based user interface
# Automagically load balance and and monitor operations using a RESTFul API.
# VM Agnostic, migrate to and from various virtual environments including KVM/Qemu, Amazon EC2 and Xen. (OpenVZ, VirtualBox and VMware coming soon)
# Fully Automated platform with easy setup rules for a completely autonomous and self healing virtual environment

Those alone make it worth while. It depends on mysql for its data storage. I might be trying this out in the lab. When I do, I'll post back.

Since Xen is at least where VMWare Server/ESX is, it is interesting that enomalism might give at least a set of the features available in the ESX/virtual infrastructure product. The main weakness of Xen is managing a pool of Xen servers, and if enomalism does what it advertises, it is a huge step forward.

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