Software
Zentific is a browser-based management interface for clusters of virtual machines running on the open-source Xen® hypervisor. In the spirit of the open-source projects which have made Zentific possible, the application will be released to the community.
To ensure that Zentific maintains a high level of reliability, security, and ease of use, we will also be offering a supported version for commercial use.
Additional details shall be forthcoming as we near launch. Please visit the Screenshot Gallery for snapshots of the program as we develop it.
Features
Zentific has a great number of useful features. The list appearing below indicates those facets of Zentific which will be available in the first release. This list remains in flux, so check back regularly.
- Basic virtual machine management (Start, Stop, Pause, etc)
- Finely grained role based privileges and user management.
- Multiple authentication options (local, LDAP/AD, etc).
- Cluster friendly, capable of managing hundreds of virtual machines with as many users.
- Highly abstracted from host physical machines (non-invasive with very few dependencies).
- Manage by individual virtual machine or by virtual machine groups.
- Scheduled tasks per virtual machine or group of virtual machines.
- Distribution agnostic - installs easily in all variants of linux.
- Encrypted and secure; all communication channels from physical machine to management server to client are encrypted using industry standards.
- Virtual machine templating and provisioning: configure once, deploy many times
- Detailed statistics gathering over time, providing an activity profile for every virtual machine and increasing ease of resource management.
- Networking configuration (vlans, bridged, host-only bridge, NAT LAN)
- Transport via XML-RPC with an API permitting extensions, customization, and integration with existing infrastructure.
- Template support for the frontend GUI for easy rebranding.
- Tentative support for the conversion of VMWare virtual machines to xen
Future Plans
Zentific is under aggressive development and many enhancements shall be forthcoming. Listed below are just some of the features you may expect for the next version of Zentific. Please feel free to request features via our contact page.
- PXE booting of physical hosts
- PXE booting of virtual machines
- KVM and qemu support
- More attractive and more detailed graphing of statistics
- Exposure of data exposed via SNMPv3
- Automatic migration of virtual machines to load balance/load share across a cluster.
- Integration with firewall/IPS, with per VM or VM-group rules.
- Desktop GUI client (cross platform)
- host-guest tools for shared directories
Legal
Xen® is a trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc. No relationship, association, or endorsement by Citrix Systems, Inc. toward Zentific and its developers is intended or implied.
Zentific is a trademark of Fugitive LLC, Steven Maresca, and Justin Demaris. All materials presented via HTTP://www.zentific.com including text, multimedia, and source code is the express copyright of Fugitive LLC, Steven Maresca, and Justin Demaris 2007-2008 unless otherwise indicated.