Tool: OpenQRM With virtualization coming into data centers in a big way, it's becoming more difficult to manage a mix of physical and virtual servers. OpenQRM is an Open Source server management software that can easily manage both physical and virtual servers in a data center. It provides automatic failover for servers and dynamically adjusts the amount of allocated servers depending on actual usage.



This tool of 115 MB can be downloaded from http/downloads. html. OpenQRM has a plug-in based architecture, which means more functionality would be added to it in future. With openQRM one can build a booting environment that works for different hardware. Therefore openQRM takes care of hardware de¬pendencies. We booted our machine with openQRN image. To create new vir¬tual environment click on 'New Virtual Environment' and then give a name to it.

Select kernel image using 'edit' tab and file system. For provisioning your server, click on 'Provisioning and Policy' tab. Here one can define the number of nodes and amount of maximum load on each node. Once all the configurations are done save this virtual environment