ZSvirt is an open-source Server Virtualization (Hypervisors) platform for deploying and managing virtual machines across physical server infrastructure. It provides a centralized control plane for datacenters, clusters, hosts, storage, networks, images, and VM instances.

ZSvirt originated from the ZStack ZSphere commercial project and now develops independently as an open-source platform. It is intended for homelabs, proof-of-concept environments, and production virtualization deployments.

Key Capabilities

Deploys and manages virtual machines through a centralized web interface and management node.
Uses virtualization components including KVM, QEMU, and libvirt for compute-node operations.
Organizes infrastructure into datacenters, clusters, hosts, datastores, image storage, distributed switches, and distributed port groups.
Creates VMs from supported system images, including QCOW2 and raw image formats.
Provides agentless VMware migration through the ZMigrate toolset, including full-disk replication and incremental synchronization.
Supports distributed networking, SR-IOV, and live migration capabilities.
Includes virtual-machine security controls such as Secure Boot, vTPM 2.0, VM encryption, security groups, MFA or 2FA, and immutable audit logs.
Provides a built-in Native Key Provider for encryption-key management.
Supports infrastructure automation through Terraform, GitOps workflows, Go, Python, and Java SDKs, plus REST and OpenAPI endpoints.
Supports offline installation and installation media for x86 and ARM server architectures.

Audience & Use Cases

ZSvirt is designed for infrastructure administrators and platform teams that need to create and operate virtual-machine environments without using a proprietary virtualization suite. It can support VM provisioning, datacenter management, private infrastructure operations, VMware migration projects, automation-driven deployments, and development or test environments.

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