Growing number of commodity servers leads to:

• Increasing number of failures – furthering downtime.
• Servers managed individually lead to:
• greater opportunity for operator error
• inconsistent imaging and policies applied across servers
• over-provisioned or peak-provisioned systems
• Growing management costs – hardware and software are a small part of the price.

Bottom line: System administrators spend a significant amount of time either fighting fires or repeating multiple steps to manage a growing number of individual Linux boxes. Ultimately, the x86 data center is not always reliable, does not meet business needs, and creates inefficiencies in terms of administrative costs per server.

The Solution

Open Resource Manager addresses the needs of the modern data center by:

• Improving reliability on the hardware and application level
• Giving system administrators full control of the data-center
• Provisioning servers within a few minutes
• Consistently applying policies across servers
• Adjusting resources based on business demands
• Managing heterogeneous x86 hardware

Target users

Enterprise data centers running Linux on x86 servers, including the following use cases:

• Availability for business-critical applications
• Hosting environments, managed service providers, or outsourced environments
• Dynamically and automatically provisioning servers
• Re-allocating resources dynamically, sometimes referred to as “utility computing”
• Automating and improving test, development and QA environments

 Advantages of openQRM  

• Maintains efficient data center operations; handles failures smoothly and automatically.
• Customer-proven in critical business environments
• Manages physical servers and virtual machines, seamlessly and automatically
• Open source systems management software:
• Saves money in both the short and long term
• Allows both system administrators and data centers to tailor a solution to fit their needs – as opposed to utilizing a proprietary “one-size-fits-all” product
• Standard user space application runs on any x86 Linux

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openQRM is an open source systems management platform that automates enterprise data centers and keeps them running

openQRM significantly minimizes downtime for IT infrastructure and business applications, reduces annual management costs for complex data centers, and increases server utilization. In other words, it helps system administrators sleep better at night (literally) while saving organizations money.

openQRM is a proven, open source systems management platform that integrates with existing components in complex data centers to create scalable and highly-available infrastructures. It is the ONLY open source complete systems management solution which automates mundane tasks within a data center.

How can I reduce my data center costs?

Many data centers determine that each x86 server costs $7,000-$20,000 a year -- mainly due to management overhead. A management and automation system such as openQRM can reduce these costs substantially from day one.
Managers typically prefer not to purchase additional infrastructure software as it is costly to buy, implement and use. With openQRM, there are no additional costs and it is easy to use.