HyperVM (Virtualization Manager)
Industry's most complete Virtualization Manager: Manage your entire server farm, both Virtual and Real from a single console. HyperVMTM is a multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization system delivering the highest flexibility in provisioning your virtual machines.
HyperVM is a multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different Virtual Machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms. The key point of hyperVM is that it is agnostic about the underlying technology that you use. Currently it supports openvz and Xen on Linux, and will soon support MS Virtual Server on Windows and Solaris Containers, thus allowing a customer to manage his entire server farm from a central console.
Virtualization, a common feature in the mainframes, has finally arrived on the Intel Platform, and with it naturally has arrived a slew of choices, and as with any competing technologies, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. HyperVM cuts through all the complications and allows the user to manage any type of virtualization on any machine in the server farm, and everything can be managed from a central console.
The most important Virtualization technologies in Existence and their strengths and weaknesses.
Xen The most important Virtualization technology currently is Xen. The primary advantages of Xen are low overheads, and complete flexibility. By utilizing the latest intel VT chipset, Xen will be able to run any guest OS without modifications, and the paravirtualization approach results in the least amount of overheads, making the ideal choice in a production environments who want to run a mixed system of Windows and Linux.
OpenVz the other open-source technology, is easy to manage, and ideal for creating light weight partitions that each customer can manage themselves. The limitation here is that openVZ virtualization is done at the OS level, and thus you can only partition linux into multiple linux boxes, and thus prevents you from running anything other than the host OS, that is in this case Linux. OpenVZ partitions are not completely isolated, and the entire ram + swap is shared across the vpses. This would mean that a graceful degradation of services cannot be achieved, but this is more than offset by the ease of adminstration, and the low overheads.
MS Virtual Server is Microsoft's foray into the virtualization space, and creates sand boxed virtual machines in a windows environment. This is ideal of people who prefer Windows as the primary OS, and would not want to install Linux on their servers. The virtualization here is a bit more complex, and thus will incur higher overheads.
HyperVM's final aim is to allow the customer to manage all of these technologies in a seamless manner, and centrally manage these varied virtualization technologies running on different platforms managing different operating systems, all from a single console.