Cloud Computing with openQRM which support Xenserver

With the new 4.5 version of the openQRM Data-Center Management and Cloud Computing platform the openQRM team archived another milestone for the project. Next to lots of new features the most visible updates are the new Data-Center Summary start page (screenshot above), a "Visual Cloud Designer" (VCD) and the re-worked UI for all plugins in openQRM.

The new start page gives a lot of useful informations like the load of the complete Data-Center and the consumption of each subsystem plus peaks and trends. Very helful for performance tuning and finding bottle-necks.

Another eye-catcher in openQRM 4.5 is of course the "Visual Cloud Designer". It provides a user friendly drag-and-drop UI to request new systems from the openQRM Cloud by selecting the individual components like VM-type, CPU and Netwwork-card count, server-templates, SLA's, HA, etc. and visually constructing them to a new Cloud system. It feels like the "shopping basket for system-administrator", just pick what you need.

Please find more details about how the openQRM VCD works and looks in our teaser video "Cloud Computing in 5 minutes".
Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 : 

• A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage of its ultra fast SAS disk array
• Next to Nagios2 and Nagios3 Zabbix is now the third system- and service-monitoring option available in openQRM 4.5.
• With the "Cloud NAT" feature one can hide an openQRM Cloud within a private subnet via network-address-translation (NAT). It enables to run the openQRM Cloud independent from the hosting-providers setup
• The automated billing system in the openQRM Cloud was made plug-able and now supports custom calculations including external data-sources
• An updated NetApp-plugin connects NetApp Storages with openQRM and provides an automated storage management for using NetApp Filers as Cloud-Storage (tested with ONTAP 7.0)
• The Citrix XenServer plugin got re-implemented and is now the 6. virtualization technology supported by openQRM (tested with Citrix XenServer 5.5.0). 

With its unique and generic Data-Center abstration layer openQRM is one of the very few solutions which seamlessly supports multiple virtualization technologies
(Xen, KVM, Citrix XenServer, VMware Server 1 + 2, VMware ESX ) plus physical systems.

When it comes to fully dynamic and automated provisioning including P2V ("physical to virtual"), V2P ("virtual to physical") and also V2V ("virtual type A to virtual type B") migration you should definitely take a look at openQRM.
The openQRM Team also provides a free Demo of the openQRM Cloud at :
http://www.openqrm.com/?q=node/150

Please download the new 4.5 version of openQRM at Sourceforge.net