XCP-ng is a high performance enterprise level virtualization platform with a rich ecosystem. XCP-ng stands for Xen Cloud Platform – New Generation.
XCP-ng was originally based on XenServer, Citrix Hypervisor.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multi-server management – manage, monitor, and administer all of your infrastructure in a single agentless web interface by using Xen Orchestra.
- Live migrate your VMs all around the world, without interruption. Select a new storage repository for a VM’s disks then moving them live without downtime.
- Live VDI migration.
- Scalability – grow your own Cloud with more hosts when needed.
- Secure – control your VMs on your own baremetal, no neighbors
- Dynamic Memory Control – automatically adjusts the memory available for use by a guest VM’s operating system
- Live patching – patch hypervisors without needing to migrate, shut down or suspend VMs.
- USB Passthrough.
- SR-IOV Networking – enables single root I/O virutalization (SR-IOV) – allows a single PCI device to appear as multiple PCI devices on the physical system.
- GPU Passthrough – enables 3D graphics deployment within VMs and VDI.
Website: xcp-ng.org
Support: Documentation, Forum, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Xen Project incubation project hosted by the Linux Foundation
License: GNU General Public License Version 2
XCP-ng is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Hypervisors | |
|---|---|
| Proxmox | Virtualization management platform |
| Xen Hypervisor | Fastest and most secure infrastructure virtualization solution |
| KVM | Full virtualization solution for x86 hardware |
| oVirt | Virtualization solution for your entire enterprise |
| Firecracker | Create and run lightweight microVMs |
| XCP-ng | High performance enterprise level virtualization platform |
| Lguest | Little hypervisor designed for experimentation with virtualization |
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