Product Information

C-DAC Virtue is an enterprise-grade Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) platform engineered for mission-critical on-premises cloud deployments, unified virtualization, and resilient software-defined infrastructure. Powered by BOSS Linux (Bharat Operating System Solutions), Virtue combines compute, storage, and software-defined networking into a single unified stack.

Latest version brings major enhancements in automated cluster orchestration, resilience, and compliance:

• Enterprise Disaster Recovery & Replication: Integration of the Virtue Data Centre & Disaster Recovery (VDC-DR) module featuring granular disk-level storage mapping, end-to-end site failover, and verified data integrity across multi-datacenter environments.
• Intelligent Cluster Rebalancing: The Virtue Distributed Resource Scheduler (VDRS) engine, delivering both fully automated and policy-governed manual VM workload rebalancing.
• Streamlined Provisioning: One-click Bulk VM Deployment from unified templates with atomic background execution and clean rollback capabilities.
• Deep Observability: Unified Prometheus and Grafana telemetry pipelines with granular IOPS profiling, burst-time analysis, and proactive alert management.
• Sovereign Trust & Storage Governance: Standardized enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) lifecycle management and the Virtue Image Interoperability Manager (VIIM) with global storage policy enforcement at the storage backend.

1. On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure

• Deploy a secure and efficient private cloud infrastructure using BOSS Linux and Ceph for seamless integration of compute, storage, and networking.
• Enable organizations to manage their cloud resources with a unified orchestration dashboard and real-time telemetry.

2. High Availability and Scalability

• Ensure uninterrupted services with automatic failovers and cluster quorum-based HA using corosync and pacemaker.
• Dynamically scale compute nodes and storage pools to accommodate growing workloads without downtime or performance degradation.

3. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Services

• Deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective virtual desktop solutions using SPICE and containerized desktops with RDP.
• Support both persistent and non-persistent desktops for diverse enterprise use cases, such as remote work and training environments.

4. Integrated Security

• Protect sensitive data and workloads with robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and LDAP/AD integration.
• Maintain compliance with audit-ready logs, and a secure patch management pipeline.

5. Open-Source Components

• Utilize open-source technologies like KVM, LXC, Ceph, and Open vSwitch for virtualization, storage, and networking.
• Benefit from community-driven innovation while maintaining cost efficiency and flexibility for customization.

On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure

• Powered by BOSS Linux 11 (Anika), optimized for high-performance virtualization, security, and reliability.
• Integrates compute, storage, and networking into a single appliance for simplified cloud management.

Unified Orchestration and Management

• Single Pane of Glass dashboard for centralized management of resources.
• Real-time telemetry for monitoring cluster health, VM performance, storage usage, and network throughput.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Quorum-based failover and automated VM restarts ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Asynchronous snapshot-based replication (RBD Mirroring) for disaster recovery.

Advanced Virtualization and Containerization

• Hypervisor: KVM for hardware-accelerated virtualization supporting diverse guest OS.
• Lightweight containerization using LXC for minimal overhead and secure isolation.

Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

• Integrated Ceph storage with RBD for thin provisioning and snapshots.
• Features like inline compression, erasure coding, and adaptive replication for efficient storage management.

Scalability and Resource Optimization

• Seamless scaling of compute nodes and storage pools without downtime.
• Dynamic resource allocation and over-commitment policies to optimize utilization.

Integrated Security Framework

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and LDAP/AD integration for centralized identity management.
• Continuous vulnerability scanning and secure patch management pipeline.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

• Centralized desktop solutions with SPICE and RDP for persistent and non-persistent desktops.

Networking Capabilities

• Advanced network configurations with VLAN tagging, Linux bridges, and Open vSwitch.
• Granular firewall rules and virtual network isolation for secure connectivity.

Open-Source Ecosystem

• Built on proven open-source components like KVM, Ceph, LXC, and Open vSwitch.
• Cost-effective and customizable, leveraging community-driven innovations.

Operational Efficiency

• Automated workflows for VM and container lifecycle management.
• Integrated monitoring tools for real-time analytics and alerts.

Migration Framework

• Supports live VM migration and seamless platform migration from legacy ESXi environments.

Sustainability and Cost-Effectiveness

• Optimized resource utilization reduces power consumption and operational costs.
• Tailored for small to medium-sized enterprises, making enterprise-grade features accessible.

Backup and Snapshot Mechanism

• Automate backup jobs for VMs, and files with incremental backups for storage efficiency.
• Capture point-in-time snapshots for quick recovery and restore specific data easily.

Virtue Data Centre & Disaster Recovery (VDC-DR):

• Automated end-to-end multi-site replication, planned failover, and disaster recovery.
• Granular disk-level storage resource mapping across heterogeneous target storage pool architectures.

Virtue Distributed Resource Scheduler (VDRS):

• Automated Mode: Dynamic live VM migration triggered by continuous telemetry analysis to autonomously eliminate compute and memory imbalances.
• Manual / Governed Mode: Evaluates cluster load, generates an optimal migration vector plan, and mandates explicit administrator approval before moving any workloads.

Bulk VM Deployment Engine:

• Single-operation provisioning of multiple VMs from standard templates, replacing repetitive one-by-one cloning.
• Unified single-entry background execution logging at the datacenter/node level rather than spamming task logs with individual VM records.
• Atomic rollback mechanism providing clean abort capabilities that prevent orphaned or partially written virtual disks.

Virtue Image Interoperability Manager (VIIM) & Storage Governance:

• Custom hypervisor storage backend extension enforcing global storage policies.
• Subsystem-level enforcement of administrative storage quotas, access restrictions, and location-binding policies directly at the backend.

Sovereign Enterprise CA & Certificate Lifecycle Management:

• Air-gapped trust boundary where the Root CA private key remains strictly governed and secured within C-DAC.
• Client-facing Certificate Signing Request (CSR) workflow enabling seamless TLS/SSL certificate issuance and renewal without exposing the private root key.

Deep Infrastructure IOPS & Telemetry Profiling:

• Dedicated Prometheus, Node, and PVE Exporter data pipelines feeding custom Grafana dashboards.
• Granular analysis of static IOPS and burst-time windows to diagnose host-level performance degradation and VM resource spike anomalies.

• Product Version : C-DAC Virtue HCI 3.1.2
• Base Operating System : Enterprise BOSS 11 (Anika)
• Compute & Virtualization : KVM Hypervisor & LXC Container Runtime
• Cluster Orchestration & HA : Quorum-based HA with automated VM failover and zero-downtime Live Migration
• Software-Defined Storage (SDS) : Custom storage backend endpoints with global storage policy enforcement
• Disaster Recovery : Continuous asynchronous RBD snapshot mirroring and remote demote/promote failover
• Software-Defined Networking & Security : Linux Bridge, VLAN, OVS networking with micro-segmented firewall, /MFA
• Security & Compliance : NIST-compliant security architecture featuring integrated vulnerability management, multi-tenant RBAC, and sovereign Root CA trust boundaries.
• Image Interoperability : Virtue Image Converter Utility: Secure remote SSH disk retrieval, staging on target nodes, and automated conversion to QCOW2 or RAW formats
• Workload Provisioning & VDI Templates : Custom VDI & Fileshare Templates as a Service: Turnkey, pre-packaged LXC container templates enforcing standardized enterprise baselines for virtual desktops and fileshares
• Platform Governance & Migration : Automated VMware ESXi VM import utility, socket-based cluster licensing enforcement, and enterprise backup/recovery framework.
• Observability & Monitoring : Full Observability & Telemetry Pipeline, custom algorithms.

CDAC Virtue Demo

For hands-on demo requests, please email your interest to virtue-hci@cdac.in.

Team: FOSS & Cloud Computing Group

Point of Contact: Sakthi Saravanakumar P (Scientist - E)

E-mail: virtue-hci[at]cdac[dot]in