Second post in the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials track. A1.1 covered what the product is; this one gets under the lid of a host. When I tell people HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software (VM Essentials, VME) runs a KVM-based hypervisor called HVM, the reaction splits cleanly. Half relax — “fine, I know KVM.” The other […]
What HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software actually is: the KVM-based HVM hypervisor, the VME Manager, what it does out of the box, and where it stops.
What the HPE CloudOps Software suite actually is — Morpheus, OpsRamp, and Zerto as one orchestrate-observe-protect stack — and how it stacks up against the field.
Environment for the examples below: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble), which ships libvirt 10.0 and QEMU 8.2. Install the stack with sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virtinst, run sudo systemctl enable –now libvirtd, and add yourself to the libvirt and kvm groups so you’re not typing sudo for every action. Confirm versions with virsh