About openQRM

openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform. Its fully pluggable architecture focuses on automatic, rapid- and appliance-based deployment, monitoring, high-availability, cloud computing and especially on supporting and conforming multiple virtualization technologies. openQRM is a single-management console for the complete IT-infra structure and provides a well defined API which can be used to integrate third-party tools as additional plugins.

Please participate in the openQRM Community Survey!

Dear openQRM Community Member

Your feedback has always been important for us to make openQRM better and enhance it from version to version. In order to even better understand what you expect from the leading Open Source Datacenter and Cloud Computing Management Platform openQRM, we have prepared a survey that we encourage you to take.

     The openQRM Community Survey

The survey is available in english and german language, participating is completely free, easy as a snap and will take around 10 minutes.

As a small "Thank you", all survey participants have the option to enter the drawing to win a free Arduino Starter Kit - you better hurry up and claim your chance to get one of these cool gizmos!

The winner will be stated after the end of this survey on the 30. June 2011. The judges' decision is final.

Many thanks in advance for participating in the openQRM Community Survey!

Matt Rechenburg
Project Manager openQRM

Howto upgrade from openQRM 4.7 to 4.8

If you just asked yourself howto upgrade openQRM from version 4.7 to just released 4.8 here is the answer for your question:
Dr. Sichendra Bista published another openQRM Howto with the topic

Howto upgrade from openQRM v4.7 to v4.8

at thehumanape.org/tutorial/

Also the previous Howto about "openQRM with LXC containers" got updated to 4.8.

Many thanks to Dr. Sichendra Bista for this useful contribution!

openQRM 4.8 released - much more than "just" Cloud Computing

The openQRM Team is happy to announce the release of openQRM 4.8, with lots of new features for datacenter automation and some huge enhancements in the base framework.

Some highlights of the new version:

• The "Remote VM Console" plugin (sponsored by openQRM Enterprise), integrating with NoVNC to provide access to the Virtual Machine console within a Webbrowser
• Support for OpenVZ as an additional container based virtualization technology in openQRM (next to Citrix XenServer, KVM, LXC, Virtualbox, VMWare and Xen)
• The capability for "live-migration" of VMs implemented for KVM, Xen and OpenVZ Virtual Machines
• For automated VLAN management of virtual machines openQRM is now using Open vSwitch
• An updated Nagios plugin and an initial integration with Icinga allow an even easier configuration of custom system and service checks for managed systems

openQRM seminar documentation

On the 2nd of March Sizing Servers Lab organized the "SME Datacenter Automation" seminar at VOKA. One of the topics included was about openQRM and how to set it up.