About openQRM

openQRM is the next generation, Open Source Data Center Management and Cloud Computing Platform designed to fully automate data centers and manage them in a scalable way.

Among its many characteristics is a unique architecture that unifies physical and virtual machine deployment within a single management console - via a modern Web Interface, the HTTP API or the command line.

openQRM integrates with all commonly used virtualization and storage technologies and it supports transparent migrations between virtual and physical server systems.

Features at a Glance

openQRM manages physical and virtual server systems. It supports the major open and commercial Hypervisor platforms: Linux KVM, XEN, Citrix XenServer, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Linux lxc Containers, OpenVZ and VirtualBox.

P2V, V2P and V2V migrations between any of these can be done at any time to keep your infrastructure as flexible and scalable as possible.

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openQRM integrates seamlessly with all major open and commercial storage technologies. Using industry-standard shared storage, openQRM makes use of modern filesystems and snapshot-based rapid provisioning. This saves storage capacity and operations time. 

openQRM enables you to run high-availability storage solutions by using the provided DRBD, GlusterFS and High-Availability-Auto-Failover plugins.

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The openQRM server itself can be run on most flavors of Linux, preferrably on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS distributions.

openQRM supports network-based provisioning, deploying and managing virtual or physical client systems for Linux and Windows Operating Systems.

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openQRM comes with full support for automatic provisioning of virtual or physical appliances.

To handle the whole system life-cycle, plugins are available for initial Provisioning by an Image-Shelf, Cobbler or FAI, Configuration Management using Puppet, Linux/Windows Application Deployment via Puppet or OPSI and CMDB/Network Documentation using i-doit.

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To make monitoring less painful and manual, openQRM keeps track of its own system and service inventory. By provided plugins, it integrates with Nagios/Icinga, Zabbix to do full-blown monitoring and alerting, and it uses collectd to gather runtime statistics.

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openQRM can migrate virtual or physical machines between your own private IaaS platform and Amazon Webservices (AWS) in both directions. This way, you can overcome capacity shortages and start or stop publicly available systems on-demand, according to current load requirements.

Find the right edition

openQRM is available in two editions.

openQRM Community Edition is a fully open-source project licensed under the GPLv2, hosted on sourceforge.net. It is freely usable for any personal or commercial purpose.

openQRM Enterprise Edition is the commercially backed, extended product for professional users. If you need reliable support options or access to additional features, this is worth a look.

Find out which openQRM Edition is right for you in our Edition Comparison Matrix.