Virtual Appliances

Virtual Appliances are a new way of deploying applications and infrastructure components, on virtualization technologies like VMware.

Our design goal here at VirtualAppliances.net is to build the smallest possible virtual machines that provide a complete solution optimized for the virtual environment.

This approach saves your valuable resources across your virtualization infrastructure. A minimal sized image saves load on your shared storage, network bandwidth, memory, and cpu. This also saves time in booting, backing up and snapshotting images.

Our appliances are infrastructure oriented. We have 5 different appliances available.

• LAMP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/MySQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
• LAPP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
• Apache Tomcat Server provides a J2EE Java application server.
• Cacti provides the popular network date collection and graphing application.
• NTOP provides the realtime network traffic analysis application.

These appliances are build on Ubuntu Linux. Updates and patches are very easy to manage with the appliances using Ubuntu's own repositories for update management. As well there are hundreds of applications that can be installed on the appliances from the Ubuntu repositories.

For example, the LAMP appliance is perfect for running many popular online applications which are available in the Ubuntu repository. For example, the popular applications, Drupal, Wordpress, or phpbb. The appliances can be used for from evaluation through deployment. An enviroment with seperate images for development, testing and production can be setup using as little as 6G of storage.