openQRM
| Developer(s) | openQRM Community / openQRM Enterprise |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2004 |
| Stable release | / 2 September 2013 |
| Written in | PHP, C, Shell script |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Hypervisors (Xen, KVM, VMware ESX) and other solutions (Linux-VServer, VirtualBox, OpenVZ) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Cloud computing |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | http://www.openqrm.com/ |
openQRM is a free and open-source cloud computing management platform for managing heterogeneous data center infrastructures. The openQRM platform manages a data center's infrastructure to build private, public and hybrid IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) clouds. openQRM orchestrates a multiplicity of storage, network, virtualization, monitoring, and security implementaions[1] technologies to deploy multi-tier services (e.g. compute clusters[2][3]) as virtual machines on distributed infrastructures, combining both data center resources and remote cloud resources, according to allocation policies. According to the European Commission's report about the future of cloud computing from a group of experts:[4]
| “ | ... only few cloud dedicated research projects in the widest sense have been initiated – most prominent amongst them probably OpenNebula ... | ” |
The openQRM platform emphasizes a separation of hardware (physical servers and virtual machines) from software (operating system server-images). Hardware is treated agnostically as a computing resource which should be replaceable without the need to reconfigure the software.
Supported virtualization solutions include KVM, Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, VMware ESX and Xen. Virtual machines of these types are managed transparently via openQRM.
P2V (physical to virtual), V2P (virtual to physical), and V2V (virtual to virtual) migration are possible as well as transitioning from one virtualization technology to another with the same VM
openQRM is sponsored by openQRM Enterprise.
History
openQRM was initially released by the Qlusters company and went open-source in 2004. Qlusters ceased operations, while openQRM was left in the hands of the openQRM community. In November 2008, the openQRM community released version 4.0 which included a complete port of the platform from Java to PHP/C/Perl/Shell.
See also
- Cloud computing
- Cloud computing comparison
- Cloud infrastructure
- Eucalyptus
- Nimbus
References
- ↑ "openQRM Features and Functionality". OpenNebula documentation. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
- ↑ R. Moreno-Vozmediano, R. S. Montero, and I. M. Llorente. "Multi-Cloud Deployment of Computing Clusters for Loosely-Coupled MTC Applications", Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Special Issue on Many Task Computing (in press, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2010.186)
- ↑ R. S. Montero, R. Moreno-Vozmediano, and I. M. Llorente. "An Elasticity Model for High Throughput Computing Clusters", J. Parallel and Distributed Computing (in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.05.005)
- ↑ European Commission Expert Group Report. "The Future of Cloud Computing"
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