oVirt is a complete virtualization management platform, licensed and developed as open source software. oVirt builds on the powerful kernel based virtual machine (KVM hypervisor) and on the RHEV-M management server, released by Red Hat to the open source community.
Florida State University’s Research Computing Center (RCC) provides the university’s academic community with access to a virtual machine cluster. It is used for basic data services, collaborative applications, firewall installation, and other self-managed services.
In 2016, RCC successfully migrated their virtual machine cluster to oVirt. The oVirt-powered cluster is currently serving 60 users across 20 academic departments.
Read the full RCC case study
Meet Alter Way, a French hosting company who deploys oVirt in production for their clients, because "it allowed us to scale up as well as scale out our client workloads".
The main points which swayed their decision? "A very active community, an ambitious technical roadmap with regular releases, and the involvement of companies including Red Hat, Intel, NetApp, Cisco and IBM reassured us that the project would be around for the duration."
Read the full Alter Way case study
Find out how the Brussels Airport Company keeps a vital transportation and cargo center moving by managing their virtual machines with oVirt.
Faced with an opportunity to take the approximately 150 virtual machines housed on 30 Solaris machines and manage them with another virtual datacenter management tool, the Brussels Airport IT team went with oVirt running atop CentOS.
Read the full Brussels Airport case study
We are delighted to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.2, as of December 19, 2017, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, CentOS Linux 7.4, or similar.
oVirt 4.2 is an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution. The release is a major milestone for the project, encompassing over 1000 individual changes and a wide range of enhancements spanning storage, network, engine, user interface, and analytics.
The oVirt project now includes a unified metrics and logs real-time monitoring solution for the oVirt environment.
Using Elasticsearch - a search and analytics engine - and its native visualization layer, Kibana, we now provide oVirt project users with a fully functional monitoring solution.
In 4.2 release we have introduced a possibility to customize the host-deploy process by running the Ansible post-tasks after the host-deploy process successfully finishes.
oVirt is a community-driven virtualization project, and people like you are making it happen! You don't have to be a programmer. The project will greatly benefit from inputs by documentation, bug reporting, UX, and design superheroes.
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