Partners

Here are some companies that are working together with OpenVZ project in one or another way. Feel free to add your company profile here (in alphabetical order).

Note: Hosting service providers should add their entries to Hosting providers, not here. Thanks.

K7 Computing

BinaryKarma, now acquired by K7 Computing is offering an multi-hypervisor platform, FluidVM that also supports OpenVZ, apart from Xen. FluidVM supports local and SAN storage and is also extensible via an XML-RPC based API. FluidVM ships with a browser based interface with which users can manage multiple servers and VEs. BinaryKarma is also the developer of EasyVZ, a GPL'd free GUI available for OpenVZ.

Blended Perspectives

Blended Perspectives is a strategy-to-execution consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Our core offerings are centered on provision of Wiki platforms and OpenVZ is a favoured host operating environment to achieve scale and resiliency.

ClearCorp

ClearCorp provides Complete Custom Solutions using OpenSource tools. As a part of our group, ClearNet use OpenVZ to do very fast server provisioning and to implement scalable and reliable network designs. We are also working directly with the RCSL (Costarican Free Software Network).

Computer Tyme

Computer Tyme is using OpenVZ for their spam filtering service Junk Email Filter dot com. They are active proponents of OpenVZ; Marc Perkel worked at the OpenVZ booth during LinuxWorld Expo 2007.

Fortech I.T. Solutions

Fortech I.T. Solutions is an IT consulting company based in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) specializing in open-source solutions. We offer services in a variety of areas, including virtualization solutions based on a number of platforms - including OpenVZ.

Fry-IT Ltd

Fry-IT Ltd is a London based web, mobile and hosting consultancy and among the services we provide are system solutions involving Clustering, Load Balancing and High Availability, with OpenVZ as the virtualization technology of choice.

An example of our consulting work is the OpenVZ cluster powering 6 applications at MOD Defence Academy in the UK, the public website being one of the applications. To our clients, hosted with us or running their own infrastructure, we provide a complete solution from custom OpenVZ scripts, a container resource limits management web application to thorough documentation of system management procedures.

Impulso Srl

Impulso offers white label Internet Services and uses OpenVZ cluster for their managed email services like Posta Linda. Impulso also offers support for OpenVZ in Italy.

Inguza Technology AB

Inguza Technology AB maintains the Debian GNU Linux version of OpenVZ.

LastSpam

LastSpam offers managed e-mail security services (anti-spam and anti-virus/bad content) and uses OpenVZ to deliver excellent service and support to its customers. Ugo Bellavance, LastSpam's head server architect and manager is an active member of the OpenVZ community: helping on the forum, making suggestions, and submitting patches.

netVOICE communications

netVOICE communications is an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) that uses OpenVZ as the basis for their Virtual Private Asterisk Server (VPAS) offering. They also offer consulting on running Asterisk (the leading Open Source telephony platform) on OpenVZ. netVOICE is a Digium Approved Reseller and has a Digium Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) on staff.

Openwall

At Openwall, we develop our own Open Source software with a focus on security, including Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl for short), a security-enhanced server platform. Our professional services include remote installation (you boot off CD, we do the rest) and maintenance (systems and security administration) of OpenVZ-enabled servers and mini-networks of such servers. We typically use the OpenVZ kernel, the Owl userland for the host system, and arbitrary Linux distributions for the containers (most often that's Owl as well - with additional software to meet your needs). We readily have software solutions for provision of advanced LAMP hosting with cross virtual host security separation within each container (that is, not only the containers are separated due to OpenVZ, but also virtual hosts within containers are separated at the OS level), multi-server backups (incremental, remote, encrypted, integrity-checked), monitoring (many custom Nagios sensors, including for things such as backups, filesystem errors, RAID status, etc.), and more.

OpenWorx

OpenWorx is an IT company specialized for small and medium scaled business support on Linux and Open Source: webapplications, virtualization, linux servers desktops and servers.

Proxmox

Proxmox VE is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running pre-built Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines (based on OpenVZ and also KVM for full virtualization).

Proxmox is using OpenVZ for their spam filtering appliance (see Proxmox Mail Gateway in container). Proxmox is also the author of vzdump utility.

Revolution Linux

Revolution Linux is an IT company specialized in large scale infrastructure deployement using Open Source technologies. Most/all of our deployements rely extensively on containers (OpenVZ and Linux Vserver).

Solarspeed Ltd.

Solarspeed Ltd. is a CentOS + BlueQuartz server specialist, selling server systems and software solutions. We developed Aventurin{e}, which is a Linux Virtualization Appliance Software. It is based on OpenVZ and is available in a non-clustering and a clustering version. The clustering version uses DRBD and Heartbeat. The GUI interface of Aventurin{e} is based on the BlueQuartz and allows to easily manage and create virtual servers or to perform administrative tasks on the master node. Aventurin{e} is available as ISO image download, as a ready to run Linux Virtualization Appliance or as a ready to run Linux Virtualization Appliance Cluster.

Solutions First

Solutions First is a Linux and Open Source infrastructure specialist company. Amongst many other FOSS products, we sell and support OpenVZ for our customers. We are happy to provide support of OpenVZ any Asia-Pacific customers. We have experience in generic container hosting environments, templated applications, HA clusters and much more OpenVZ specific applications.

SpiderTools.com

SpiderTools provides training for OpenVZ servers. Students work on live servers to gain skills on how to implement OpenVZ. 20% of all sales go back to OpenVZ for development. Students will get 6 weeks of live instruction and support.

Thomas-Krenn.AG

Thomas-Krenn.AG is a server specialist, selling server systems and solutions. One of the solution products is a pre-installed cluster system, built with Virtuozzo. They published how to build such a cluster with OpenVZ at HA cluster with DRBD and Heartbeat.

Unixservice

Unixservice provides SLAs for critical internet infrastructure provisioning. As we have grown over the past 10 years we have become fervent advocates of running such services on a grid/cluster of OpenVZ (or Virtuozzo) servers. The main R&D team leader has just released our own C based unxsVZ grid/cluster manager (unxsVZ) released under a GPL license, including autonomic functions that we have developed based on discrete mathematics and CMU/IBM research. unxsVZ source, yum repository and RPMs here. Call us now with questions; we even provide free deployment support and container tuning support for DNS/BIND, RADIUS, HTTP Apache hosting, ESMTP stores, ESMTP out and MX edge server farms on large VZ grids.

See also

• Hosting providers — HSPs using OpenVZ
• Download mirrors — people and companies providing mirrors for OpenVZ software
• Control panels
• 2006 contributions