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what tools would you use to manage an environment of 40 physical servers running kvm virtualization ?

the requirements are:

provisioning via an api (can be something built in house) metrics about virtual machines migration of live virtual machines snapshots for backups

thanks

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Have you taken a look at libvirt ?

Edit: Not quite sure what you mean by low-level since it has a GUI and all. But if you are looking for something web-based, how about Eucalyptus?

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  • yes libvirt is the defacto for all other tools but is very low level
    – silviud
    Dec 11, 2010 at 13:59
  • @silviud - edited my answer.
    – sybreon
    Dec 11, 2010 at 15:15
  • low level as is used into cli (nothing wrong with it from my point of view) but I was looking at something more web based - i know about eucalyptus as ubuntu it's using into their servers but i need something simple - like solusvm for example - lightweight and simple to install/administer.
    – silviud
    Dec 13, 2010 at 2:58
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    libvirt has lots of command line tools and can be largely maintained through virsh and virt-* commands.
    – sybreon
    Dec 14, 2010 at 1:49
  • If libvirt is too low level, there is oVirt.
    – Cristian Ciupitu
    Dec 27, 2010 at 15:52
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Check out 'Cloud business' from http://www.witsbits.com. I think the current price is around 3 USD per core à month.

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http://www.convirture.com/ try this its open source product :)

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40 physical hosts is a serious environment. Have you taken a look at RHEV?

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