SMTX OS Product Component

Native Hypervisor ELF

Virtualization with verified stability and reliability in production environments.
ELF is SmartX’s KVM-based virtualization for production environments, equipped with complete compute virtualization and VM life cycle management functionalities. ELF can be deployed with ZBS in the form of SMTX OS, achieving highly optimized performance and functioning as a great VMware alternative in production.
Nearly 65%
of SmartX users choose ELF
“Market Guide for Server Virtualization”
Gartner
Why ELF
Rich Virtualization Features
VM Life Cycle Management
Combination with Storage
Resources
Why ELF
Production-ready features. Equipped with rich virtualization features that can boost VM performance and stability, and support high performance computing demands, such as AI scenarios.
More simplified and easy-to-use. A handful of useful operations & maintenance features help improve the management efficiency of VMs.
More cost-efficiency. No need for expensive subscription costs. Save your time in deploying and managing VMs.
Rich Virtualization Features
VM High Availability
Enable "High Availability" for business-critical VMs to immediately and automatically restore business in the event of host failure or network isolation.
Intelligent Placement and Placement Groups
Automatically place VMs based on host resources and available domains. Customized placement policies can be set based on placement groups to meet requirements such as license restrictions or high application availability.
Intelligent Placement and Placement Groups
Dynamic Resource Scheduling
The optimized dynamic resource scheduling evaluation system not only facilitates the dynamic adjustment of VM placement based on cluster workload but also perfectly aligns with the agile resource scheduling requirements within container environments.
Shared Virtual Volumes
Multiple VMs can mount and use shared virtual volumes at the same time, supporting the deployment of highly available clusters such as Oracle RAC. VMs with shared virtual volumes still support online migration operations, ensuring flexibility in shared volume scenarios.
GPU Passthrough and vGPU
Improve GPU resource efficiency to enable enterprises to achieve production-grade utilization across a diverse array of high-performance applications, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition processing, 3D modeling, and image rendering.
VM Snapshots
Plan and schedule the creation and management of VM snapshots to provide continuous data protection. Unlike VMware Snapshots, which use redo-log files and snapshot chains, SmartX Snapshots have independent metadata, and multiple snapshots are independent of each other, effectively avoiding performance degradation during snapshots and facilitating management.
VM Life Cycle Management
VM Templates
Batch creation of VMs through templates reduces duplication of effort, enables rapid application deployment, and streamlines space usage.
Content Library
Share and distribute content repository resources to multiple clusters for unified management of distributed VM templates and ISO images.
VM Migration
Flexibly migrate VMs within a cluster and between different hosts across clusters, enabling flexible scheduling of VMs under host maintenance, server room relocation, and other scenarios to ensure business continuity.
VM Monitoring
Monitor the performance indicators and resource usage of physical hosts, VMs, and clusters in real time, and check the monitoring information within a specified period, to timely spot and locate system errors.
Combination with Storage
I/O Localization
Intelligently optimize I/O based on read/write features of virtual machines to achieve software-defined performance improvement.
I/O Localization
Storage Policies at Virtual Volume Level
Tailor provisioning policies and replica quantities to virtual volume granularity for precise management.
Storage Policies at Virtual Volume Level
Resources
Blog
Improving Resource Utilization: Innovative Implementation of DRS in SmartX HCI
Learn about SmartX’s DRS feature and the comparison with other products.
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Blog
GPU Passthrough & vGPU: Using GPU Application in Virtualization with SMTX OS 5.1
Discover how to use GPU applications in ELF virtualization.
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Blog
VMware vs SmartX: Snapshot Mechanism and I/O Performance Comparison
Learn about how VMware and SmartX differ in snapshot mechanisms.
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