openQRM Enterprise
6.3#3 in bare metal as a service (bmaas) softwareFree planFree planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
Visit| Fact | openQRM Enterprise | xCAT |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | The maker lists Proxmox, KVM, Xen, Amazon AWS EC2, Azure, OpenVswitch, Puppet, Nagios and Collectd among integrations or supported technologies. | The documentation lists OpenStack and SoftLayer cloud integration and mentions configuring HPC applications including GPFS, Parallel Environment, and LSF. |
| Purpose | openQRM is a data centre management and cloud computing platform for managing IT infrastructure. | xCAT automates deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal servers and virtual machines. |
| Support | Enterprise SLAs define response times and support hours, offer direct professional-services access by phone, Skype and email, and are available 24/7. | The project encourages GitHub issues for support and also lists an older user email list. |
The Enterprise Edition is intended for professional users and is described as suitable for production environments, research and development, and quality assurance. It may suit teams managing infrastructure that spans bare-metal and virtual machines.
xCAT may suit administrators managing clusters, datacenters, or other large groups of physical or virtual machines, particularly where parallel operations and operating-system provisioning are needed.