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SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS

  • Warren is a modular platform that provides services on a solely software-defined infrastructure

  • Warren runs on uses Apache Mesos based system for 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

  • All open source components have been chosen by proven reliability

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




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 assurance

  • Hypervisor level auto migration for disaster recovery

DIFFERENT CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES

  • 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, public, and private docker registries


STANDALONE, WEB-BASED GUI

  • Fast and intuitive single-page application GUI

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

  • Built-in terminal and file explorer style logic for simpler management

  • Basic graphic overview of resources health 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 with up to 4094 bridges

  • Built-in load balancing capability

  • Floating IP 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

  • Accounting system with invoicing and payment integration

  • 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 projects
    • Cluster 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
    • Event Notifications through your favorite channels
    • , Project-based grouping 

    • Integrated GPGPU virtualization

    • Event Notifications through 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