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Virtualization

Open virtualization without the licence trap.

We design and operate virtualization platforms on open technology: KVM as the hypervisor, Ceph as storage and, where it fits, VMs and containers on one control plane with KubeVirt.

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The challenge

Licence models of proprietary hypervisors change, costs rise, and many applications still need virtual machines. Moving away only works if storage, networking and operations are part of the plan.

What we do

Capabilities in detail

KVM and libvirt

The Linux kernel's own hypervisor as the base: efficient resource use, clean isolation, no licence lock-in.

KubeVirt

Virtual machines on Kubernetes, with one lifecycle, network and storage model for VMs and containers.

Private cloud

Private cloud environments with OpenStack and Proxmox VE, including automated provisioning of compute nodes.

Storage for VMs

Ceph RBD as a highly available backend, NVMe/TCP through NVMe-oF gateways for hypervisors.

Automated provisioning

PXE/iPXE, MAAS and Packer for reproducible hosts and maintained golden images for VMs.

Hardware integration

Servers, NVIDIA GPUs and DPUs (BlueField), SR-IOV, bare-metal asset management across the whole lifecycle.

Migration

The path from VMware ESXi and other proprietary platforms to open virtualization, with a migration path and test strategy.

High availability

Availability zones, redundant networks and storage, so losing a host never means losing the service.

Approach

From requirements to operations.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Workloads, dependencies, storage and networking of the existing environment.

  2. 02

    Target architecture

    Hypervisor, storage, networking and operating model of the new platform.

  3. 03

    Pilot

    Representative workloads are migrated and validated under load.

  4. 04

    Build as code

    Hosts and platform are created automatically and reproducibly.

  5. 05

    Migration

    Workloads move in waves, with a rollback plan.

  6. 06

    Operations

    Monitoring, updates and capacity planning.

Technology

  • KVM
  • libvirt
  • QEMU
  • KubeVirt
  • OpenStack
  • Proxmox VE
  • Ceph RBD
  • NVMe-oF
  • MAAS
  • PXE / iPXE
  • Packer
  • NVIDIA BlueField
  • SR-IOV
  • VMware ESXi

Services in detail

Bare Metal

Automated provisioning of physical servers

Let's talk about your infrastructure.

An architecture review, a new environment from the ground up or support in operations: talk directly to the engineers who will deliver it.

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