What is SUSE Harvester?
Harvester is an open-source hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software built on Kubernetes. It installs on bare metal servers and provides integrated virtualization and distributed storage capabilities. While Harvester operates using Kubernetes, it is designed to be user-friendly, not requiring users to have in-depth Kubernetes knowledge
Highlights
- VM lifecycle management: Includes features like SSH-Key injection, cloud-init, and graphic and serial port console
- VM live migration support
- Backup, snapshot, and restore capabilities for VMs
- Distributed block storage and storage tiering
- Support for multiple network interface controllers (NICs) in VMs, connecting to management network or VLANs
- Virtual Machine and cloud-init templates
- Integration with Rancher for multi-cluster management and Harvester node driver
- PXE/iPXE boot support
- Virtual IP and bond NIC support
- Monitoring and logging integration