The operational layer above the hypervisor.
A hypervisor manages VMs on one host. A cluster manager coordinates fleets of hosts so that VMs can move, restart, and scale without operators having to track individual hardware. That is what Netframe Manager does.
If you have run vSphere with vCenter, the operational concepts will feel immediately familiar, clusters, datastores, distributed networks, resource pools, HA, vMotion-style live migration, RBAC. We have reimplemented these primitives on top of KVM with cleaner abstractions and a substantially simpler licence model.
Manager is the difference between operating a handful of independent KVM hosts and operating a real platform.
- Per-core licensing, no per-VM fees, no annual uplift
- Active/standby HA Manager pair included
- Full REST API with Ansible & Terraform support
- SAML 2.0 / OIDC integration with your existing IdP
vSphere-grade operations on KVM foundations.
Multi-node clusters
Coordinate up to dozens of Core hosts as a single managed cluster. Shared resource view, unified policy, single pane of glass.
High availability
Automated VM failover on host failure with sub-minute restart times. Configurable per-VM priorities and restart policies.
Live migration
Move running VMs across cluster nodes with zero downtime. Pre-copy memory transfer with sub-second freeze windows.
Role-based access
Granular RBAC with built-in and custom roles. SAML, OIDC, and LDAP integration for enterprise identity.
REST API
Complete OpenAPI 3.1 REST API. Ansible collection, Terraform provider, and Python SDK included.
Alerting & observability
Built-in alerting on cluster events, resource saturation, and SLA breaches. Stream events to your SIEM via syslog or webhook.
Audit & compliance
Tamper-evident audit log of every state-changing action. Streams to your SIEM via syslog or webhook.
cloud-init provisioning
Provision VMs across the cluster with cloud-init or sysprep. Reproducible, automated, and ready for Ansible or Terraform.
A management UI that respects your time.
Clean, fast, keyboard-friendly. The Manager UI surfaces what operators need without burying it under modal dialogs and inscrutable wizards.
- Real-time cluster overview with health, capacity, and active alerts
- Per-VM console access with copy/paste and resolution scaling
- Bulk operations across selected VMs
- Live performance graphs with drill-down to per-VM metrics
Built for production scale.
- Deployment
- Linux appliance VM, or container on existing Kubernetes
- Cluster scale
- Tested up to 64 hosts and 8,000 VMs per Manager instance
- Licensing
- Per physical core managed. No per-VM fees. No annual uplift.
- High availability
- Active/standby Manager pair with automated failover
- Authentication
- Local users, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect
- API
- OpenAPI 3.1 REST with bearer token & API key auth
- Integrations
- Ansible, Terraform, Python SDK, syslog, webhooks
- Storage backends
- Inherits from Core: NFS shared storage
- Backup integration
- Native integration with Netframe Backup; supports third-party agents
See Manager in your environment.
We run real demos against real clusters. Schedule a 30-minute walkthrough with an engineer, no slides, no high-pressure sales.