VMmanager Cloud Documentation

General information

VMmanager Cloud is a virtualization management software, which presents a perfect tool for creating virtual machines, providing VPS hosting services and building cloud infrastructure.  VMmanager Cloud uses the KVM hardware virtualization. 

The Libvirt library is used for managing the virtualization system. Learn more in Virtualization management using libvirt.

Hosting providers can use VMmanager to provide virtual machines to their clients. Developers, educational institutions, commercial organizations can use VMmanager to divide a physical server into several isolated virtual machines.

Main features

The control panel allows to perform the following functions:

  • create virtual machines;
  • reboot, activate, suspend virtual machines;
  • ensure high-availability of the system; 
  • migrate virtual machines between cluster nodes;
  • install OS on virtual machines;
  • boot virtual machines from ISO-images;
  • generate resource consumption reports.

Characteristics

You can manage many physical servers (cluster nodes) from a single control panel;

When you connect a cluster node, the software applications it needs are installed and configured automatically;

Live migration of virtual machines allows to unload a cluster node;

Analytics and notifications allow getting information about errors.

Other versions

VMmanager OVZ this version allows users to create virtual machines using OpenVZ hypervisor.

VMmanager KVM  this version is based on KVM-virtual but doesn't allow build a failover cluster.