Virtuozzo ecosystem
Sorted in alphabetically order.
Contents
API
- LibCT
- Parallels SDK
- There are two different drivers in LibVirt: driver with support of Parallels Hypervisor, works via Parallels SDK, and driver with support of OpenVZ containers.
- Container API for Ruby, sources
Configuration management
Container management
- Docker: Docker inside VZ containers, Docker manage VZ containers via LibCT (see LibCT)
- Cobbler
- Webmin plugin
- Quattor - a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable, and modular set of tools for the automated installation, configuration, and management of clusters, farms, grids and clouds. See slides.
- Cloudmin - an UI built on top of Webmin for managing virtual systems, such as Xen, KVM and OpenVZ instances.
- SolusVM (Solus Virtual Manager) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support.
Images registry
Hosting automation
- OpenStack (available in Kilo release) Source
- Plesk (proprietary)
- Parallels Virtual Automation (proprietary)
Hosting offers
- Virtuozzo
- OpenVZ-based hosting
Monitoring
- Zabbix
- Nagios
- ctop - a lightweight top like monitor for linux CGroups with Docker, LXC and OpenVZ support.
Maintenance (migration, backup)
- CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace) - software tool for Linux operating system. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space.
- Plan B - fast OpenVZ backups. Source code: https://github.com/gcoop-libre/plan-b. Slides "plan-b - fast OpenVZ backups".
Network
- Open vSwitch (OpenVZ requires patch)
OpenVZ-based Linux distros
- OWL (OpenWall Linux)
- Proxmox
- XtreemOS
- OpenNode - lightweight bare-metal cloud OS combining Linux Containers and KVM full virtualization options into payload optimized solution. Source code
- ALTLinux
Storage
- Odin Cloud Storage (proprietary, free use with limitation 100 Gb)
- ZFS, see also
Useful scripts
- OpenVZ shaper
- fastnetmon - fast DDoS analyzer with SFLOW/NETFLOW support
- ploop in userspace
- antidoto - Linux antimalware and antirootkit tool
- open_vestat - monitoring of CT load
- mkve - manage containers
- vzmem - pseudo-graphical tool which allows you to distribute physical memory among all VEs consistently
- vzfirewall - an extremely simple tool to configure opened ports and hosts for incoming connections in OpenVZ environment
- vzfailcnt - send OpenVZ failcnt changes over e-mail
- vzset - set barrier/limit for OpenVZ UBC option interactively
- vzenter - simple tool for system administrators which allows you to enter an OpenVZ container (vzctl enter) specifying a minimal noncontradictory part of its domain name
- vzpbackup - backup for containers using ploop storage
See also
- OpenVZ Control_panels
