Deckhouse Virtualization Platform (DVP) is available both as a standalone product and as a virtualization module integrated into certain editions of Deckhouse Kubernetes Platform (DKP).
Supplied as a standalone product:
- DVP EE: Commercial edition for enterprise use.
Supplied as a virtualization module:
- DKP CE: Open Source edition under the Apache 2.0 license.
- DKP SE+: Extended version of the virtualization module.
- DKP EE: Extended version of the virtualization module.
The table below provides a brief comparison of editions, listing their main features and functions:
The feature set corresponds to the latest release on the stable release channel.
| Features | DVP EE | DKP CE | DKP SE+ | DKP EE |
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| Declarative creation of any resources (GitOps ready) |
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| High availability of VMs when a hypervisor node fails |
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| Dynamic hypervisor resource balancing |
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| Dynamic hypervisor resource balancing with local disks |
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| Hypervisor maintenance mode |
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| Support for Russian operating systems on the hypervisor |
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| Scaling up to 1000 nodes and 50000 VMs |
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| Provider for deploying DKP on DVP in full integration mode |
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| Centralized management of DVP clusters using Commander |
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| Nested virtualization support |
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| Resource planning | ||||
| Resource quotas at the project level |
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| Policies for sizing virtual machines (VirtualMachineClass) |
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| Unification of CPU instructions on hypervisors (VirtualMachineClass) |
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| Centralized management of CPU oversubscription for virtual machines |
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| Management capabilities | ||||
| Administrator web interface |
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| User web interface |
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| CLI management and API access |
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| Running user workloads | ||||
| Ability to run virtual machines |
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| Ability to run containers |
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| Virtual machine management | ||||
| Importing VM images and disks (qcow, vmdk, raw, vdi) |
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| Shared and project-scoped images for creating virtual machines |
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| Automatic cleanup of removed VM images |
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| First-boot VM OS customization |
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| Adding and resizing VM disks without reboot |
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| Hot-plugging CPU and RAM for VMs |
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| Consistent snapshots of VM disks and configuration (storage must support snapshots) |
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| Restoring VM disks and configuration from a snapshot |
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| VM cloning |
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| Disk and snapshot export |
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| Connecting USB devices to VMs |
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| Live migration of VMs to an automatically selected node |
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| Live migration of VMs to a manually selected node |
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| Live migration of VMs with attached USB devices |
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| Policies for optimizing live VM migration |
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| Live migration across different storage types |
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| Live migration between nodes when using local storage |
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| VM launch policies (Always On/Always Off/Manual) |
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| VM placement rules (Affinity/Anti-affinity) |
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| Data storage | ||||
| Built-in SDS |
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| Support for third-party SDS (Ceph) |
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| Support for NFS |
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| Universal support for hardware storage arrays (SCSI-generic) |
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| Support for API-based storage array support (Yadro, Huawei, HPE, NetApp) |
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| Network capabilities (SDN) | ||||
| Connecting VMs to physical VLANs |
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| Multiple network interfaces for VMs |
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| Shared VLAN networks for VMs in a cluster |
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| Isolated VLAN networks for VMs within a project |
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| Hypervisor network bonding |
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| Automatic IP address assignment for VMs |
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| Micro-segmentation based on network policies |
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| Built-in load balancer |
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| External load balancer based on MetalLB |
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| Load balancer with active health checks |
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| Static routing management |
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| Egress Gateway |
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| Monitoring | ||||
| Virtual infrastructure and cluster component health monitoring |
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| Resource planning and infrastructure load management |
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| SLA monitoring for platform and infrastructure availability |
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| VM health and performance monitoring |
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| Built-in alerting for VM and platform component health |
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| Access control for metrics, dashboards, and alerts (Monitoring multitenancy) |
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| Exporting metrics and logs to external collectors |
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| Security | ||||
| Multitenancy (projects) |
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| Flexible role-based access model (RBAC) |
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| Deployment in an isolated environment |
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| Integration with external authentication providers (LDAP, OIDC) |
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| Ingress certificate management |
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| VM migration with encryption (Data in Transit encryption) |
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| Security event auditing for virtualization |
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| Support | ||||
| Community support |
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| Extended technical support (8/5) |
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| Extended technical support (24/7) |
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