Integrated Application Hosting Overview

The Integrated Application Hosting (IAH) feature provides the ability to host guest VMs on ExtremeXOS-based switches.

The IAH infrastructure includes:

ExtremeXOS Virtualization Manager component—responsible for guest VM management and control, management of networking connectivity, management of compute resources, and complete isolation of activity from ExtremeXOS.
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)—Linux kernel feature enabling hardware-accelerated virtualization.
QEMU (Quick EMUlator)—an open-source emulator and hypervisor.

VMs can be packaged as either OVAs (Open Virtual Appliance) or qcow2 or any QEMU-compatible (including VMDK) disk images.

Requirements

IAH requires the following:

Core or Premier license (for more information about licenses, see the ExtremeXOS 32.2 Feature License Requirements )
Solid State Storage Device SSD-120 (see SSD-120 Device).