TABLE OF CONTENTS As the popularity of Xen increases, the need to manage all of those Xen installations also goes up. Fortunately, many software companies have come to the rescue and have developed their own management solutions for the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor and its guests. Many of these third-party management tools are available as free, open source alternatives to the existing product line, and others are part of a value-added suite with commercial support and maintenance.
If you have decided to implement a Xen-based virtual infrastructure, or if you already have one but are looking for additional management capabilities in your tool set, this chapter will introduce a few of those that are currently available. Although not an all-inclusive list of available management applications, these products represent some of the more popular choices that Xen administrators have chosen to help keep their implementations under control.
Qlusters, Inc., is a provider of open source data center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments. Its most popular product is openQRM, an open source systems management platform that helps to automate enterprise data centers and keep them running. openQRM is a mature, established product that integrates with existing components in complex data centers to create scalable and highly available infrastructures.
Founded in 2001, Qlusters has grown to be a contender as a data center technology and services provider. openQRM has had a lot to do with the company s success and is currently used by multiple data centers worldwide to improve...
