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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 a solely software-defined infrastructure

    • Warren uses Apache Mesos as its data centre kernel to achieve 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

    • ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x; GSX 2.0 and VPX 2.5/4.x/5.x management capability

    • Templated virtual machine management logic

    • Custom-made OS image uploading option

    • Consistent SSH key management for teams

    CONTAINERS

    • Built-in private image registry

      • Convenience features for easy CI/CD pipeline

    • Convenient one-click application setups

      • Advanced

    • Personal metrics and

      • log

    • logs management

    • Autoscaling Kubernetes as service on top of Mesos

    STORAGE

  • Built in private image registry
  • Custom OS uploads
    • Multi location replication for object storage

    STORAGE

    • Storpool distributed storage system integration

    • Multi-site asynchronous replication option

    • Built in object storage file browser with

      • the capability to open and edit files (Code, notebooks etc)

    • editing and execution capability

    NETWORKING

    • Built in VPN
      • Connected

    • Complete NFV functionality including personal VPN and firewall

    • Connection handlers for public clouds (Azure, Google, AWS)

      • Built in firewall

    • Visual network topology presentation option

    • Cluster remote setup with SDN isolated IPMI

    GENERAL

    • Built-in Jyptyter notebooks with

      • scalable resources for data science projectsCluster physical nodes auto-installation and setup

    • a variety of  kernels

    • 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

    • , Project-based grouping 

    • Integrated GPGPU virtualization

    • Event Notifications through

      • your favorite channels

    • the channel of choice

    USER MANAGEMENT & BILLING

    • User- and permission management for all

      • objects

    • resources

    • 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 the simplicity of ACL management. 

    • Compatibility for multiple authentication sources (e.g.local, AD, LDAP)

    Download as PDF: A5_features_flyer_web.pdf