Archipel is a virtualization orchestrator that provides a real-time, modular platform to manage virtual machines across various hypervisors like KVM, Xen, and VirtualBox. It emphasizes user communication, efficient resource management, and an open-source approach, featuring a user-friendly interface and numerous functionalities such as live migration and real-time statistics. The platform utilizes technologies like XMPP and Python to facilitate communication and scalability in managing virtual environments.

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2. General presentation
Antoine Mercadal, project founder & lead developer

3. V i r t u a l i z a t i o n
r e m i n d e r s
Is it really
mandatory ?

4. Benefits
• Saves space, time, money and resources
• Green IT
• Simplify exploitation
• Quick platform implementation
You manage virtual computer as an application

5. The risks of virtualization
• By definition, a virtual server doesn’t exist
• A host crashes, a dozen of virtual machines crash
• Need some virtual buttons and controls
• Need feedback about health of virtual machines and hosts
Need to communicate

6. t o d a y ’s
Te c h n o l o g i e s
no Java here

7. XMPP
• Real-time and extensible communication protocol
• Main usage : instant messaging (Google, Facebook etc.)
• Free
• Decentralized

8. Python
• Flexible, powerful, performant and simple
• Cross-platform (Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X et Windows)
• Large components library
• Open source

9. Cappuccino / Objective-J
• Cocoa for Javascript, right from your browser
• Allow to build powerful web application
• Abstraction of underlaying javascript code
• Very good performance
• Open source

10. Libvirt
• Unified layer to control virtual machines
«Almost» unified
• Support many virtualization engines
KVM, XEN, ESX,VirtualBox, Hyper-V, OpenVZ, LXC...
• Provides a Python library

12. What is exactly Archipel?
• Orchestrator for virtualization
It can be compared to Enomalism, oVirt, Proxmox, etc.
• All is about real time
Everything is pushed, never pulled
• Modular
Near functionality free core and a set of modules
• Scalable
It is as easy to add or remove an hypervisor.
• Open source
No need for further explanation about that

13. Live migration
Virtual machine creation
PAE / ACPI / APIC
huge pages
User-to-user chat
User-to-VM chat and control
VNC to access virtual machines
Packaging
VMCasts registrationReal time statistics
Beautiful GUI interface
Cross platform
Snapshotting
VMCasts publication
Cloning
Virtual disk management
Shared cd/dvd isos
easy installation
Live memory adjustment
Hot CPU plug
Avatar selection
Group management
Virtual machine autostart
Virtual networks
Lifecycle Logs
Modular
Features overview ?

14. I’m sure I know this ship...
A r c h i t e c t u r e

15. Logical Architecture

16. XEP used in Archipel with
• Every part of Archipel has it’s own JID and vCard
Hypervisors,Virtual Machines, the users (through the UI)
vCards are used to store entity type / custom informations
• Virtual Machines use hypervisor node JID as resource
This way you can know on which hypervisor the vm is hosted
• PubSub for events, admin, roles and more
Push mechanism to trigger actions on UI or agents.
• UI settings are stored using XEP-0049 (private xml storage)
And shared between UI sessions for different users
• Service management is done through XEP-133
User management from the UI, except admin-list witch is done through XEP-0050
when we have to deal with ejabberd ACLs
• XML-RPC for Shared Roster Group Management (EJAB-1485)
Auto-group for hypervisor and vms (no need to ask subscription for everyone)
SRG management from the UI

17. Multi-site Architecture

18. Physical Architecture

19. Software Architecture

20. Agent Architecture

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