This page explains more about what OpenStack is and how it fits in with VirtEngine.

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VirtEngine

VirtEngine is an Open Source Hybrid Cloud Management platform that integrates with multiple infrastructure endpoints, one of them being OpenStack.

VirtEngine offers a Hosting Provider edition that provides the ability to offer Infrastructure to end-users with billing enabled.

OpenStack

OpenStack is an open source software that allows for the deployment and management of a cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform. OpenStack supports both private and public cloud deployments. It fulfills two main requirements of the cloud: massive scalability and simplicity of implementation.

Hypervisor Virtualization

• Group A:
• KVM/QEMU
• [Group B:
• Hyper-V
• VMWare
• XenServer
• Xen via libvirt
• Group C:
• Bare-Metal
• Docker Containers
• LXC via Libvirt

Storage

• Ceph
• Gluster
• LVM
• NFS
• iSCSI - Libvirt Datastore
• ZFS
• Sheepdog

Networking

• Bridged Networks
• 802.1Q VLAN Network
• VXLAN Networks
• Open vSwitch Networks

Setup and Deployment

OpenStack can be deployed through various methods, the simplest being DevStack - however it would not be recommended to use DevStack for production and is instead a better tool for testing the platform. Other examples of deployments can be found here: OpenStack Deployment

In order to use OpenStack with VirtEngine, you would need to install VirtEngine Waldur - Documentation can be found in Waldur Documentation