Virtualised Open Source Servers from Optimus deliver new levels of cost efficency and perfomance, allowing you juggle your system requirements comfortably.

Our open source virtualisated server solutions hosted on Ubuntu Linux provide the following benefits:

• Achieve Higher Productivity for each physical server you purchase
  
  
• Each Virtual Server image can be restored rapidly in minutes to a default configuration, WITHOUT affecting your other servers
  
  
• Each VM is resourced according its workload requriements, ensuring maximum efficient for the physical server memory and CPU resources
  
  
• Save energy by providing multiple server assets from a single physical machine
  
  
• Reduce purchase, maintenance and support costs
  
   

Ubuntu Server Edition offers a great variety of virtualization technologies, whether it is used as a host or a guest operating system.

From free to non-free solutions, Ubuntu offers choices to match every need.

We acknowledge that no single tool offers all the options to fit all needs and while we are strongly committed to KVM as our maintained open source option, VMware and Parallels' OpenVz offer alternative choices where KVM is not appropriate.

KVM - Linux kernel based virtualization

Ubuntu now includes Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), developed by Qumranet.

It is integrated within the mainstream 2.6.20 Linux kernels and above. 

KVM works in conjunction with Intel VT or AMD-V hardware virtualization technologies, which is available in most current server-oriented x86 Intel or AMD processors.

Using KVM, it is possible to run multiple unmodified operating systems in parallel,  each having private virtual hardware (network, disk, graphics etc.).

KVM supports a wide variety of guest operating systems.

Through the implementation of virtualization within the standard Linux Kernel, the footprint and overhead of a traditional virtualization solution is reduced to a bare minimum. The standard Ubuntu Server is, by default, a hypervisor. It also takes full advantages of all the optimisations implemented in the Linux Kernel without any modifications.

Optimus have completed many successful projects, providing and installing Ubuntu Servers with KVM configuration, so if you need addtional, versatile office computing resources, give us a call.