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KEY FEATURES


SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS

  • Warren is

architecturally
  • a modular

, containerized microservice platform, with services communicating internally over APIs and/or message queues
  • Management layer contains all the capabilities required to create and manage a software defined infrastructure
  • Consists of the most reliable open source components, strictly following twelve-factor engineering methodology and architecturally following GALS principlesVirtualization and Container
    • platform that provides services on software-defined infrastructure

    • Warren runs on Apache Mesos based system for scalability and reliability 

    • Intuitive user interface for infrastructure resource management

    • Multi-cluster architecture, based on GALS principle

    • 100% of functionality is covered by RESTful API

    GENERAL OVERVIEW

    • All open source components have been chosen by proven reliability

    • Compute solutions guaranteed to work with Intel and AMD based servers

    (AMD and ARM64 based systems also partially supported with full support soon to follow)
  • Among the highest priorities has always been the fault tolerance and high availability with no single point of failure (no SPOF) in any critical part of the system
  • Multi-master cluster as a minimum quality requirement (no single master setups)
  • Resource agents for KVM and Docker Containers
  • API driven / API-first feature release rules, processes to keep the architectural layers current to their purpose and nothing more
  • ENTERPRISE GRADE VIRTUALIZATION

  • KVM/QEMU based virtualization for Linux and Windows Servers, 64 bit operating systems
  • Fast and seamless built in backup instruments
  • Built in, one click live snapshots to freeze the machine states for later duplication
  • Easy and super fast cloning of virtual machines (also from snapshots)
  • Moving QEMU virtual servers from one physical host to another without any downtime




    KEY FEATURES

    ENTERPRISE GRADE VIRTUALIZATION

    • Virtualized 64-bit Linux and Windows systems based on KVM/QEMU 

    • Seamless built-in backup and one-click live snapshots for data protection

    • Simple and fast cloning of virtual machines or snapshots

    • Zero downtime migration of virtual machines between physical hosts

    • Auto live migration for optimization and reliability

    • purposes
    • assurance

    • Hypervisor level

    • self-healing by recovering guests on other hypervisors
    ENTERPRISE GRADE HIGHLY SCALABLE
    • auto migration for disaster recovery

    DIFFERENT CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES

  • Apache Mesos based container system for maximum scalability and reliability (proven by Twitter to run on larger than 80 000 node cluster)
  • Health checks with self-healing and auto-scaling capabilities
    • Docker, Mesos or Composing containerizers to choose from 

    • Kubernetes-as-a-Service or Marathon for end-user container orchestration

    • Multi-aspect health checks and configurable auto-scaling 

    • Built-in persistent storage

    capabilityPublic
    • , public, and private

    registry support
    • docker registries

    STANDALONE, WEB-BASED

    MANAGEMENT

    GUI

    Blazing fast
    • Fast and intuitive single-page application GUI

    • Can be run on any local/remote host that connects to Warren cluster

    • Built-in terminal

    for easy access on the goEasy to learn
    • and

    understand
    • file explorer style logic for simpler management

    • Basic

    metrics
    • graphic overview of resources health

    of the resources
  • Subscription management via GUI
  • STORAGE

  • Deeply integrated Ceph RBD distributed Local storage
  • Extendable to plug in other storage technologies
  • Unlimited number of storage definitions (clusterwide)
    • and usage

    STORAGE 

    • Interface for Ceph distributed storage cluster

    • Extendable for other shared/distributed storage technologies

    • Possibility to use local storage as the main storage unit 

    NETWORKING

    • Bridged networking model

    • Each host
    • with up to 4094 bridges

    • Open vSwitch
    • Built-in load

    • balancer
    • balancing capability

    • Floating IP

    • system
    • across containers and virtual machines

    USER MANAGEMENT & BILLING

    • Auth0 registration and login system

    • Flexibility to use additional authentication options

    • Billing account management with detailed specifications per resource

    • Complete accounting
    • Accounting system with invoicing and payment

    • processor
    • integration

    • (Creditcards)
    • Credit
    • Free credit management system




    COMING NEXT

    VIRTUAL MACHINES

    • ESXi support
    • Template management
    • Custom OS uploads
    • Easier SSH key management for teams

    CONTAINERS

    • Built in private image registry
    • Convenience features for easy CI/CD pipeline setups
    • Advanced metrics and log management
    • Autoscaling Kubernetes as service on top of Mesos

    STORAGE

    • Built in private image registry
    • Custom OS uploads
    • Multi location replication for object storage
    • Built in object storage file browser with the capability to open and edit files (Code, notebooks etc)

    NETWORKING

    • Built in VPN
    • Connected public clouds (Azure, Google, AWS)
    • Built in firewall
    • Visual network topology

    GENERAL

    • Built-in Jyptyter notebooks with scalable resources for data science projects
    • Cluster physical nodes auto-installation and setup
    • Secure HTML5 VNC console, supporting SSL
    • Shared workspaces & real-time collaboration
    • Cluster-wide task and cluster logs
    • GPU support
    • Project component to group different resources serving single goal
    • Event Notifications through your favorite channels

    USER MANAGEMENT & BILLING

    • User- and permission management for all objects
    • A role is simply a list of privileges. Warren comes with a number of predefined roles which satisfies most needs. The
    • whole set of predefined roles can be seen on the GUI.
    • Support for multiple authentication sources (e.g.local, AD, LDAP)



    Download as PDF: A5_features_flyer_web.pdf