Qlusters, Inc. the leading provider of open source data center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments, today announced an extension to its popular openQRM systems management platform that brings advanced virtualization and Xen management capabilities designed to permit the easy deployment, creation and management of Xen hosts and virtual machines. Together, with its existing support for VMware, this new offering bolsters openQRM’s ability to provision, manage and monitor both virtual and bare-metal environments while improving system administrator and hardware efficiencies.

Once installed, openQRM helps IT professionals rapidly adapt and repurpose their systems to best meet their needs including redeploying or migrating their OS/Application environments between various physical and virtual configurations as needed. In addition, the latest version of openQRM helps administrators increase or decrease the memory consumption of a Xen partition on-the-fly while making it possible to add, remove and assign virtual machines to specific physical units on any host without having to restart the system.

Additional upgrades include the ability to:

• Live-migrate a partition from a small Xen-host to a larger one;
• add/remove additional network cards for partitions and configure through which physical network card on the Xen-host traffic should be routed;
• extend a handed-over Logical Volume Manager (LVM) device from the Xen-host to the partition without restart, useful for on-the-fly increases to partitions on virtual hard disks.

“With this new capability, openQRM is the only solution that supports the seamless management and migration from one virtualization environment to another in addition to physical, such as XenSource’s Xen to VMware’s ESX, via a simple GUI drop-down menu,” said Ofer Shoshan, founder and CEO of Qlusters. “As more and more organizations utilize virtualization technologies as the foundation of their network infrastructure, we will continue to work with the open source community to expand openQRM’s capabilities to meet the growing needs of today’s data center.”

Pricing and Availability

openQRM is available immediately at http://www.openQRM.org with support for advanced virtualization and Xen capabilities today.

Qlusters provides enterprise-level subscriptions, which include Enterprise plug-ins and tools, updates, installation assistance, trouble ticketing, global weekday e-mail-based technical support and full production support including patch and fix distributions starting at $500 per managed physical server. For more information e-mail info@qlusters.com or call (650) 812-3200.