What is VirtEngine?
VirtEngine is an open-source virtualization management platform that provides a unified interface for managing virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters. It supports a wide range of hypervisors and container runtimes including KVM, Xen, VMware vSphere, Docker, containerd, and more.
Some key capabilities and benefits of VirtEngine include:
- Web-based UI for provisioning and managing VMs and containers across multiple hosts
- Multi-hypervisor and multi-container support including KVM, Xen, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
- Template and image management for rapid provisioning of VMs and containers
- Granular access controls and quotas to manage utilizations of resources
- Live migration of VMs between hosts for load balancing
- High availability with automatic VM failover
- Storage management with local, shared and software-defined storage
- Virtual networking configuration including private networks, vlans and security groups
- Monitoring, alerts and reporting for infrastructure optimization
- RESTful API for integration and automation
- Horizontal scalability to manage very large deployments
- Support for hybrid and multi-cloud with public cloud integrations
Overall, VirtEngine aims to be the open-source alternative to commercial solutions like vCenter, vRealize, and OpenShift for organizations looking to reduce virtualization costs while maintaining enterprise-grade capabilities. Its broad hypervisor and container support makes it well-suited for heterogenous infrastructure environments.
Proxmox Virtual Environment, Virtualizor, OpenStack, Xen Orchestra, Archipel, MicroCloud, SolusVM, WebVirtMgr, VMmanager, OpenNode Cloud Platform, Virtkick, Cloudmatic, Feathur, HyperVM are some alternatives to VirtEngine.