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VirtEngine - Powering Public & Private Clouds

What is VirtEngine?

VirtEngine is a Virtualization platform that enables businesses to build, run scale and manage virtual machines, apps, containers entirely in your multiple independant fault tolerant clouds.

VirtEngine supports both a public model (for hosting providers) & a private model (for internal use)

VirtEngine works by integrating with OpenNebula, Docker, and Ceph to offer VM / Containers & Storage to the end-user.

Open Source

The VirtEngine project is completely Open Source, and can be found at GitHub - VirtEngine

What is a cloud?

A Cloud is a group of Phsyical Computing resources that provides flexibily to the users, users are able to launch Computing Power on demand.

What defines a cloud?

A ‘Cloud’ is generally a reference to ‘Cloud Computing’ which is a form of computing that can be utilized to serve applications, websites, databases, and much more.

Cloud Computing comes with a few Essential Characteristics in order to be recognized as ‘cloud’ instead of just Virtual Private Servers.

These essential characteristics, as defined by the US Government include:

On-demand self-service : The user can access, delete instances, or add new instances on-demand as required.

Hourly Billing allows the above to be possible, where-as monthly billing strips that on-demand availability away since you can no longer downscale when required (must wait till the month is over).

Broad network access : Able to access the service remotely.
Resource pooling : Virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. A multi-tenant model where multiple users can utilize this resource pool is required.
Rapid elasticity : Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically. There must always be idle computing power ready to be used by the consumer - and scaled on demand by the provider, the user must not wait for resources.
Measured service : Monitoring & Transparency of usage is a requirement, the user must be able to monitor required services such as Bandwidth, Storage, etc.
High Availability (optional): Clouds are generally considered to be hardware agnostic, meaning that the virtual machines don’t specificly rely on the hardware they are running on. This means that when a Physical Server fails due to hardware failure, misconfiguiration, or simply power outages - then the Virtual Machines within the hardware that has failed can migrate automatically onto a new host with no data loss and minimal service interruption.

Cloud Computing also comes with Service Models such as -

Infrastructure-as-a-Service For all other service models, they rely on an Infrastructure endpoint. Infrastructure as a Service is what powers the Virtual Machines in order to have access to Computing Power, storage, a network, and more.
Platform as a Service & Software as a Service Which are designed to save time and automate processes that are previously manual. Such as deploying custom applications, pre-packaged applications, databases, load balancers, etc .
Storage as a Service Cloud Storage includes things such as Block Storage (Extending your Virtual Machines storage), Snapshotting VM’s (to re-launch or recover at a later stage), Redundancy (storing data multiple times) & Object Storage (the ability to store data into a resource pool through an API or VirtEngine’s UI).

What is the difference between Private & Public cloud?

A private cloud is a pool of resources that only the owner and permitted users are able to access the resources, the owner may have full control over the hardware the cloud is running on (By Collocating his hardware at a Datacenter) or may lease dedicated servers from a Hosting Provider.

A public cloud on the other hand is a pool of resources that is available to the public, in return the user pays for the resources he utilizes on an hourly bases.

What VirtEngine offers

VirtEngine provides management & orchestration of a small to large number of Virtual Machines, Containers, Applications, Storage Solutions and other Cloud Services. When those machines are no longer required they are “released” back into the resource pool. VirtEngine integrates all the tools you require in one smooth experience. It includes:

A beautiful & UX based web UI
Full API support
High availability (optional)
IPv6 support
Open Cloud Platform
Virtual Machines (Templates)
Custom Applications (Platform as a Service)
Docker Containers
Install Applications in Virtual Machines (100+ through Bitnami)
Billing Integrated for Hosting Providers
VirtEngine works with any form of Physical Hosts and comes with Minimal Requirements to setup.

Getting Started

Getting your private platform as service is easy with VirtEngine:

Installation Methods

OpenSource, requires an existing OpenNebula installation - Limited to Private Cloud Community Edition
Through our Onboard Cloud SaaS offering, which will launch everything automatically in your own servers. - Licensed and Includes all VirtEngine featuers
At the outset, know the System requirements
Understand the prerequisities for your installation
Install
Configure VirtEngine
Deploy a Virtual Machine or Application

Follow the Tour to explore the available and forth coming features.

Features

Get the most from VirtEngine by following the documentation for each feature:

Virtual Machines

Deploy your favourite virtual machine of any flavor (Core, RAM, HDD) of any kind such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, CoreOS, DockerMachine and Windows or even from your own snapshots.

100’s of Bitnami apps in a second

Fast search and launch of more than 100 prebuilt bitnami apps. We also provide our images for popular apps like WordPress, OwnCloud, Discourse etc.

1000’s of Docker registry using intuitive search

VirtEngine has fast intuitive search built in, to nail the container you wish to launch. The search skims the public docker registry and reports as many results as it finds.

Customapps

Enabled to launch Custom App from a public git url or Github from your own repository for launguages like Java, Node.js, Php, Rails, C/C++, Python.

Made easy for customers to deploy in multi regions(eg: Sydney, Germany) if you have your datacenter located in two different location in the same city or different countries.

Billing Integration WHMCS

Embedded with WHMCS for dynamic billing to your customers for server resource usage like disk space, RAM or CPU usage for a periodic interval.

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