OVirt
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| Original author(s) | Red Hat |
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| Developer(s) | oVirt Project |
| Stable release |
4.1.0 / February 1, 2017
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| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| Licence | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www |
oVirt is free, open-source virtualization management platform. It was founded by Red Hat as a community project on which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based. It allows centralized management of virtual machines, compute, storage and networking resources, from an easy to use web-based front-end with platform independent access. KVM on x86 64 architecture is the only hypervisor officially supported, but there is an ongoing effort to support PPC and ARM architectures in the future releases.
oVirt consists of two basic components, oVirt engine and oVirt node.
oVirt engine backend is written in Java, while frontend is developed with GWT web toolkit. oVirt engine is running on top of WildFly (former JBoss) application server. Frontend can be accessed through webadmin portal for administration, or a user portal with privileges and features that can be fine tuned. User administration can be managed locally or by integrating oVirt with or AD services. oVirt engine stores data in a PostgreSQL database. Data warehousing and reporting capabilities depend on additional history and reports databases that can be optionally instantiated during the setup procedure. RESTful API is available for customizing or adding engine features.
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