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2024

Implementation of the description of closed vulnerabilities in the Oval language

On June 19, 2024, BASEALT announced the implementation of an Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language) description of closed vulnerability and operational systems of the Alt family. This enables customers to quickly obtain patch information and centrally manage security updates within the company. Alt SP and Alt Virtualization operating systems provide tools that will regularly download OVAL files and check containers and the installed system. Read more here.

Alt Virtualization 10.2 with OpenNebula 6.2.0

BaseALT has released an updated version of the Alt Virtualization 10.2 operating system, designed to create an enterprise virtual infrastructure. Version 10.2 has been modified to meet safety requirements. The developer announced this on May 30, 2024.

Updated package base and versions of key components: kernel, PVE, OpenNebula. Additional features have appeared in the web interface, a number of functions have been automated, a dark theme has been added.

The system environment is now based on the un-def 6.1.85 kernel with long-term support and a systemd-249.17 service initialization and control system. Improved performance, security, compatibility with new equipment.

Versions of the main systems and components of the distribution kit have been updated, including:

• OpenNebula 6.2.0 Virtualization Management System.
• PVE 7.4 Virtualization Management System.
• Containerization tools Docker 24.0.7, Podman 4.9.4.
• QEMU 8.2.2 Hardware Emulator.
• Virtualization Management Toolkit libvirt 9.7.0.
• Ceph 17.2.7 (Quincy) Storage Software Suite.
• backup Proxmox Backup Client 3.1.4., Urbackup 2.5.24 and Bacula 11.0.6.

Now, instead of a license agreement for the distribution, a license agreement is concluded. It clarifies the categories of users and their rights. You can read the agreement on the product page or during the installation of the operating system. When upgrading from Alt Virtualization 10.0 and 10.1, the license agreement concluded earlier continues.

Key changes to PVE 7.4:

• support for Ceph 17 storage system has appeared, while working with Ceph 16 is still available;
• through the web interface, you can now add stores of types ZFS, LVM and LVM-Thin, located on another node of the cluster;
• automatic redirection HTTP of requests to a secure transmission protocol has been added; data HTTPS
• Cluster Resource Scheduler (CRS) adds the ability to automatically balance virtual machines and containers at startup, not just at recovery.
• the dark theme "Proxmox Dark" for the web control interface appeared;
• Optimized sorting of virtual machines and containers. Now you can select the sort order in the resource tree and sort by name, not just by identification number (VMID);
• task logs can now be uploaded as text files for further verification;
• Now that the node enters service mode and all active HA (High Availability) services are moved to other nodes, they are automatically moved back when the mode is turned off.

Key changes to OpenNebula 6.2.0:

• Container virtualizations system LXD (Linux Container Daemon) replaced by LXC (Linux Containers);
• improved graphical interface, added dark theme;
• Added a scheduled action indicator in the virtual machine table in the GUI
• added the ability to enter tasks in the scheduler both for virtual machines and immediately in VM templates. You can modify or update existing tasks in the GUI;
• a mode for counting resources of only running virtual machines has been added for billing;
• Added the display of more than two IP addresses in the drop-down list in the virtual machine table.
• There is support for backing up virtual machines: now you can save the data of your machines in remote storage, configured as a private marketplace. The built-in virtual machine backup mechanism is available for all supported hypervisors: LXC, KVM and vCenter/ESX;
• Added real-time volume change for vCPU and vRAM resources
• added the ability to enable and temporarily disable users;
• added the ability to automatically delete the service if all associated virtual machines have been disabled;
• a new monitoring subsystem that can scale to thousands of physical hosts and tens of thousands of virtual machines;
• added the ability to disable zones. This new feature is useful for maintenance activities.

2023: Sales start through Softline.market

Softline On March 9, 2023, GK announced the start of sales of operating systems () OS "" Viola through the online showcase of Softline.market software products of the Softline Subscriptions service. The Alt operating systems of the company are BASEALT available to customers of Softline Group of Companies according to the subscription model. The use of the Russian Alt operating systems provides the necessary level of corporate protection. IT infrastructures

On the Softline.market website, users can access Alt SP operating systems with built-in security, Alt Server"," "Alt Server Virtualizations," "" and Alt WorkstationAlt Education"." More. here

2022: Russian virtualization. Review of 15 developers of domestic products

The analytical center TAdviser studied who is who Russian in the funds market, virtualizations analyzed the functional and integration capabilities of the products, assessed the experience of development companies. Among the companies and products studied are (BaseAlt Alt- product). Server Virtualization Read more about the research here.

2021: "Alt Virtualization Server" 9.2

On August 3, 2021, the company BASEALT"" announced the release of versions 9.2 the Russian of the operating systems Alt Workstation"," "" and "Alt Alt Server." Server Virtualizations These are the final versions OS based on the Ninth Alt Platform (p9) - a stable branch of the Russian independent repository "." Sisyphus Further, the Alt OS family will develop on the basis of the Tenth Platform (p10), which will be released in the near future. More. here

2020

Alt Virtualization Server 9.1 with DRBD9 kernel module and LINSTOR orchestrator

The Russian company BASEALT, the developer of the Alt family of operating systems, on October 21, 2020 announced the release of the next version of the Alt Virtualization Server 9.1 distribution. The distribution kit includes an operating system and applications for working with server resources. The software product is designed to create virtual and cloud environments of various sizes and complexity, from a freestanding server to a large-scale data center infrastructure .

In this version of the Alt Virtualization Server 9.1 OS, the developers have updated, supplemented and improved the package base, ensuring the ability to work with the software product out of the box, without numerous complex settings, - said Alexey Novodvorsky, Deputy General Director of BASEALT. - This will allow organizations to reduce the time and cost of deploying and modifying virtual and cloud assets and simplify their administration. We also made changes that significantly increase the fault tolerance of the IT infrastructure.

The main changes made to the Alt Virtualization Server 9.1 OS distribution:

• To organize fault-tolerant on data stores the basis of block devices distributed over the network, a DRBD9 kernel module and a LINSTOR orchestrator have been added. LINSTOR allows you to automate the creation of volumes (logical units of storage space) in LVM, a disk space management system that abstracts from physical devices, as well as in ZFS, a file system that can implement different levels of volume management. With LINSTOR, you can configure volume replication between multiple servers using DRBD9. The use of LINSTOR and DRBD9 capabilities is provided in PVE and OpenNebula virtualization systems, as well as management systems containers Kubernetes included Alt Server in the Virtualization 9.1 OS. The addition of LINSTOR and the DRBD9 composition of the distribution, along with the previously present Ceph and Gluster, provides customers with another option to build SDS (software defined storages) to improve the flexibility and resiliency of the infrastructure.
• A number of OS installer improvements have been made. Including those designed to ensure the operation of PVE immediately after installing the distribution kit. Improvements include fixing the corosync service, requiring the creation of a network bridge at the stage of installing the operating system, including the necessary PVE virtualization system services at the installation stage in startup.
• The OpenNebula virtualization platform has been updated to a stable release of 5.10. Errors in the operation of LXD containers (container formation and management systems) have also been eliminated. Virtual machine template based on 9 Alt Platform has been added to the official OpenNebula store and is available for download directly from the OpenNebula management interface.
• The PVE virtualization platform has been updated to stable release 6.2. Fixed errors on serversHuawei Taishan with ARM64 architecture.
• Updated software packages for storage organization, network virtualization and monitoring of virtual and cloud environments (libvirt-5.10.0, qemu-4.2.1 ceph-14.2.11, openvswitch-2.12.0, dpdk-18.11.8, kubernetes-1.18.8, docker-ce-19.03.13, etc.).

Inclusion in the Unified Register of Russian Programs

On April 15, 2020 the Russian , the company BASEALT"," the developer operating systems of the Alt family, announced the inclusion of the Alt operating system in the Server Virtualizations Unified Register of Russian Programs computer and. This databases OS is designed to build virtual and environments cloudy of all sizes and can be used in organizations of various sizes - from medium enterprises data centers to large corporations and. providers

The use of Alt Virtualization Server OS maximizes the efficiency of corporate server resources, reduces the time financial and cost of deploying and supporting cloud and virtual computing environments and saves cloudy storages power resources.

Alt Virtualization Server is a Russian OS for virtual and cloud environments that runs on three server hardware platforms that support virtualization: x86_64,, ARMv8 ppc64. Operating system tested with servers from three manufacturers ranked highest in the world rankings: (HP servers), ProLiant (200 Huawei Taishan and Taishan 100) and (). IBM Power 9 This enables consumers to build reliable, high-performance virtual and cloud environments.

The plans of BASEALT and world manufacturers of hardware platforms include joint large implementations in government agencies, state corporations, at critical information infrastructure facilities, in data centers of large enterprises. Alt Virtualization Server can also be used by information technology developers to build their own infrastructure. For example, to create a platform for infrastructure services using the IaaS model or its own data center.

In the Unified Register of Russian Software, the Alt Virtualization Server product is assigned to the Cloud and distributed computing, virtualization and storage systems class, registration number is 6487. The use of this OS, included in the register, will allow government agencies to solve import substitution problems faster and easier, to carry out purchases in accordance with the 44-FZ "On the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs" of 05.042013.

Adding the Alt Virtualization Server operating system to the Unified Register provided our customers with the opportunity to use the entire Alt OS line to build a digital infrastructure, in accordance with the requirements of the legislation on migration to domestic software. The events of recent months have shown that corporate clouds, servers and workstations must be ready for employees to work both in person and remotely. The migration of IT infrastructure to Alt operating systems allows you to implement any operating scenario in a secure, high-load, flexible digital environment. noted Alexey Smirnov, General Director of BASEALT

Alt Virtualization Server will serve as a reliable base for deploying containerization platforms and a microservice application architecture that is becoming increasingly popular in the development and migration of complex information systems. This approach is implemented using the Kubernetes platform included in the operating system distribution.

Alt Virtualization Server supports almost any OS as a guest operating system, which allows you to integrate several zones of the corporate digital environment. The product was created on the basis of the Ninth Platform - a stable branch of the Sisyphus free program repository, which supports BASEALT. In addition to a set of virtualization tools, the Alt Virtualization Server OS distribution includes software for storage organization, network virtualization and monitoring of virtual and cloud environments.

BaseALT provides free technical support during testing and familiarization with the product; The license price includes basic product support for a year.

2019: Alt Virtualization Server Release

On December 17, 2019, the company BASEALT"" announced the release of the product Alt Server Virtualizations"." It is designed to create virtual cloudy and environments of various scales and complexity: from a single servers to a large-scale infrastructures level. DPC This solution will help enterprises and organizations get a high return on their server resources, while reducing the cost of purchasing and operating them.

"Virtualization and the cloud allow you to use your organization's hardware infrastructure as flexibly and efficiently as possible, while significantly saving money and energy. Therefore, the development of virtualization technologies has become one of the priorities for our company. In combination with other products of the Alt OS line, the server provides enterprises and organizations with the ability to transfer the entire vertical of the corporate infrastructure to Russian Alt operating systems: from workstations and individual servers to complex cloud infrastructures, " noted' Alexey Novodvorsky, Deputy General Director of BASEALT

Alt Virtualization Server was created on the basis of the Ninth Platform p9 - a stable branch of the domestic repository Sisyphus. A significant share of improvements made by BASEALT employees during work on the server was included in international projects of free software, which ensures the development of components of the Russian operating system by the international community, the BASEALT specified.

According to the developer, for December 2019, "Alt Virtualization Server" is provided in the following four versions available for use on x86_64 hardware platforms, ARM64 UEFI (aarch64), POWER 8/9 (ppc64le):

• KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Installed on a stand-alone server or a group of independent servers. Includes core-level virtualization support, qemu Linux startup utilities virtual machines , and a unified interface for creating and configuring libvirt virtual environments. Use the command line interface virsh or application the graphical virt-manager on the workstation to manage. administrator
• PVE Virtualization Server Cluster - Virtualization System c. open source It manages a group of servers up to 32 units. The solution allows you to choose servers to start virtual machines and perform their "live migration" (movement between servers). Supports hardware KVM and container LXC virtualization, network virtualization, and virtualization. data stores The command line interface as well as the web interface are used for management. Possible integration with enterprise (AD, authentication systems LDAP and others based on PAM).
• Enterprise cloud virtualization based on project, OpenNebula platform. cloud computing Allows you to create virtualization templates and deploy new virtual machines with the right set of properties in a few seconds. It is used to create an enterprise cloud resource (IaaS virtual infrastructure as a service), the volume of which, if necessary, is increased through integration with third-party ones. Integration with public clouds enterprise authentication systems is possible. The virtual environment configuration includes one or more management servers (can be virtual), and a group of servers to run KVM virtual environments or LXC containers.
• Container virtualization. "Alt Virtualization Server" allows you to support several isolated zones of the corporate digital environment. Containers use a single container, OS which makes it easier to support and update them. Docker Systems, Podman or LXC/LXD are used to form and manage containers; You can use to build a cluster and manage containers. Kubernetes

According to the developer, Alt Virtualization Server also allows you to create powerful cloud computing environments and cloud storage at the service provider level, up to data center solutions. The opportunity is provided thanks to the compatibility of Alt Virtualization Server with the complex of applications based on free OpenStack software for creating infrastructure cloud services and cloud storage. The OpenStack platform is not included in the distribution, but is publicly available in the Russian repository of the Ninth Platform p9.

As of December 2019, in addition to a wide range of virtualization tools, the server includes software for organizing storage (ceph, glusterfs, nfs, iscsi), network virtualization (openvswitch, haproxy, keepalived) and monitoring virtual and cloud environments (zabbix-agent, telegraf, collectd, monit, prometheus-node_exporter). Alt Virtualization Server is available for download from the BASEALT website. Individuals or legal entities can freely use the downloaded version for testing. To work continuously with Alt Virtualization Server in the enterprise infrastructure, you must purchase licenses or conclude a license agreement in writing.