XCP-ng is an OpenSource fork from Xen to provide a user-friendly, high-performance virtualization solution, developed collaboratively for unrestricted features and open-source accessibility.
XCP-ng is a Linux distribution of the Xen Project with pre-configured Xen Hypervisor and the Xen API project (XAPI) working out-of-the-box.
On October 2003, Ian Pratt (founder of the Xen Project) announces the first stable release of the Xen virtual machine monitor for x86, and port of Linux 2.4.22 as a guest OS.
On 2018, Xen Project celebrates 15 years:
“Xen started life at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, as part of the XenoServers research project to build a public computing infrastructure on the Internet. It’s been fantastic to see the impact of Xen, and the role it’s played at the heart of what we now call Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Computing. It’s been an incredible journey from Xen’s early beginnings in the University, to making our first open source release in 2003, to building a strong community of contributors around the project, and then Xen’s growth beyond server virtualization into end-user systems and now embedded devices. Xen is a great example of the power of open source to enable cooperation and drive technological progress.
– Ian Pratt, Founder and President at Bromium, and Xen Project Founder
The XCP-ng project was born in 2018, following the fork of Citrix XenServer (which became “Citrix Hypervisor” and now “XenServer” again). Since January 2020, it is also part of the Linux Foundation, via the Xen Project.
XCP-ng provides:
- Modern Web UI: use the powerful, web based, Xen Orchestra to manage your hosts
- Rich of features: with live migration, scaling, security
According with this Register article, Veeam may test support for XCP-NG. There is also an interesting thread in the Veeam community.
