Arcfra Virtualization Engine: High-Performance, Efficient, and VMware-Compatible

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Arcfra Virtualization Engine

KVM-based, production-ready virtualization for enterprise cloud infrastructure. Run and manage enterprise VMs with the virtualization engine behind AECP. Arcfra Virtualization Engine powers compute virtualization in hyperconverged deployments and supports compute-first modernization with external storage, giving teams a consistent path from VMware replacement to full enterprise cloud operations.

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Supercharge VMs

KVM-based virtualization designed for production VM workloads, with high availability, intelligent placement, dynamic resource scheduling, and support for high-performance scenarios such as AI, encryption, and low-latency applications.

Reduce TCO

Modernize virtualization without being locked into expensive legacy subscriptions. AVE supports both integrated HCI deployments and compute-first deployments with existing enterprise storage, helping teams avoid unnecessary infrastructure redesign.

Operations Set Free

Simplify VM operations with lifecycle management, templates, migration, monitoring, and policy-driven resource controls across clusters and deployment architectures.

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AECP Compute Edition Now Available

For customers adopting a compute-first path, Arcfra Virtualization Engine is now available as part of AECP Compute Edition, combining production-ready virtualization, external storage support, and unified management.

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Unlock Full Virtualization Potentials

Full-lifecycle capabilities across infrastructure adaptation, virtual machine execution, and platform O&M. Enhanced in performance, business continuity, and security compliance, so enterprises can reliably run mission-critical workloads and seamlessly replace existing virtualization platforms.

Lifecycle Management

Built upon fundamental VM lifecycle management, simplify multi-cluster and multi-datacenter VM management via templates and content libraries, accelerating service rollout.

VM Templates

Batch-create VMs using templates to eliminate repetitive tasks, speed up application deployment, and optimize storage utilization.

Content Library

Enables O&M teams to share and distribute resources across multiple clusters, centralizing management of scattered VM templates and ISO images.

Virtualization Resource Management

Flexibly configure and dynamically allocate compute, memory, and storage resources while continuously monitoring resource utilization and overcommit status, enabling higher resource utilization and better risk management.

CPU Overcommit

Flexible reuse of CPU resources tailored for general workloads, office tasks, and peak-shaving scenarios.

Memory Overcommit

Configurable per-VM memory overcommit policies to deliver resource guarantees for critical applications, supported by isolated swap space to minimize cross-VM interference.

Thin Provisioning

Dynamically allocates backend storage capacity based on actual data written by VMs, improving storage space utilization.

Online Resource Expansion

Supports hot-add for VM CPU and memory resources, minimizing downtime during operational adjustments.

Resource Status Monitoring

Monitors key performance indicators such as CPU ready time and memory swap-in/swap-out rates to help users identify resource contention and potential risks early.

Resource Scheduling & Migration

Resource scheduling balances ease of use with diverse workload placement rules, delivering versatile migration options across different scenarios and network environments.

Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS)

Balances cluster workloads and optimizes VM placement through cluster-wide DRS analysis, resource usage forecasting, and intelligent migration recommendations.

Smart Placement & Placement Groups

Automatically places VMs based on host resources and availability domains. Custom placement policies can be set via placement groups to fulfill licensing constraints or high-availability (HA) requirements.

VM Migration

Enables flexible movement of VMs across hosts within or between clusters, supporting cold, live, and staged migration strategies for host maintenance or data center relocation.

High Performance

Optimize performance collaboratively across compute, device, networking, and storage layers, delivering a high-performance, low-latency virtualized runtime environment for mission-critical applications.

Compute Performance Optimization

Supports CPU pinning, NUMA tuning, and performance boost modes to maximize compute efficiency.

High-Speed Device Virtualization

Supports SR-IOV, PCI passthrough, GPU/vGPU, and other advanced capabilities to meet demanding high-performance networking, AI, and graphics workloads.

Full-Stack QoS

Delivers fine-grained control over VM compute, network traffic, and storage I/O, ensuring consistent resource availability for critical workloads under heavy load.

High-Performance Networking

Supports Jumbo Frame (MTU) configurations for hosts and VMs, optimizing data transfer between virtual and physical networks.

High-Performance Storage

Built on a cluster file system designed for virtualized production environments, combining storage multipathing and I/O QoS to boost storage access performance and stability.

High Availability & Data Protection

Provides comprehensive HA safeguards across multi-dimensional failures and diverse hardware devices, offering flexible choices between native backup solutions and third-party agentless backup options.

Multi-Dimensional High Availability

Automatically recovers from host failures, storage link interruptions, VM OS crashes, and VM business network failures.

High Availability for Passthrough Devices

Extends HA protection to VMs attached to passthrough devices, including SR-IOV and vGPU.

Fine-Grained HA Management

Configurable HA failure sensitivity with priority-based VM failover and rebuilding schedules.

Flexible Data Protection

Supports both native backup solutions and third-party agentless backup integrations, providing customizable backup policies and unified management.

Security & Compliance

Builds a defense-in-depth security framework covering hosts, networks, virtual machines, and business data, fulfilling stringent security protection requirements for core applications.

Host Trusted Protection

Enhances virtualized environment security and trust through host hardening, secure boot, and software integrity verification.

Traffic Visualization & Security Isolation

Combines traffic monitoring with micro-segmentation to identify abnormal traffic and infected VMs, rapidly isolating risk targets to contain security threats.

Openness & Compatibility

Broad hardware compatibility and platform adaptability. To support smooth migration to Arcfra platforms, specialized tools are provided for existing VMware setups, other virtualization platforms, HCI, physical servers, and cloud environments.

Multi-Architecture Processor Adaptation

Supports mainstream general-purpose processors and AI accelerators across x86 CPU architectures.

Server & OS Compatibility

Compatible with mainstream hardware servers and diverse operating systems to meet varied deployment environments.

Storage & HBA Compatibility

Compatible with mainstream storage arrays and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), supporting FC and iSCSI connectivity.

Cross-Platform Migration

Includes Arcfra Migration Tool for seamlessly migrating VMware VMs, and Arcfra CloudMove for migrating workloads from hyperconverged infrastructure, other virtualization environments, physical servers, and cloud platforms.

Intelligent O&M

Rich, intuitive operations and maintenance tools to enhance daily management efficiency and proactively detect operational risks. All capabilities are managed through a centralized control plane and integrate easily into existing enterprise IT systems via APIs, CLI, and third-party monitoring interfaces.

Unified Multi-Cluster Management

Offers single-pane-of-glass management for single clusters, multi-cluster setups, and multi-datacenter environments, complete with unified resource views, content libraries, and access control.

Smart VM Diagnostics

Automatically detects zombie VMs, over/under-provisioned VMs, and long-term powered-off VMs, offering resource optimization and reclamation recommendations.

Host Maintenance Mode

Supports host maintenance modes with automated VM evacuation and failback using live, cold, or staged migration.

Monitoring, Alerting & Logging

Features interactive monitoring dashboards, alert notifications, log searching, log forwarding, and log collection for rapid troubleshooting.

Automated Upgrades & Health Checks

Streamlines operations with Upgrade Center and Inspector, offering phased upgrades, compatibility verification, scheduled health audits, and early risk detection.

Open API Integration

Provides standard RESTful APIs, interactive API documentation, CLI tools, SNMP support, and third-party monitoring integrations.

One Virtualization Engine, Different Deployment Paths

Arcfra Virtualization Engine (AVE) gives enterprises a consistent virtualization layer across different Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP) deployment architectures.

External-storage deployments

In external-storage deployments, AVE connects to existing enterprise storage environments, helping organizations modernize virtualization and compute while preserving trusted FC/iSCSI storage investments.

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Hyperconverged deployments

In HCI deployments, AVE works with the Arcfra Cloud Operating System and Arcfra storage services to provide an integrated compute-and-storage foundation for enterprise cloud infrastructure.

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Path to full enterprise cloud

Start with production-ready virtualization, then extend into AECP capabilities such as Kubernetes, networking, backup and disaster recovery, operations, and full enterprise cloud management.

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