Platform Overview
10 min
General
KorGrid delivers enterprise-grade infrastructure that unifies compute, storage, and networking into a single ultraconverged platform. Built for performance and resilience, it simplifies operations through an all-NVMe architecture and integrated data services.
Our documentation is your hub for learning, configuration, and best practices. Here you’ll find step-by-step guides, technical references, and other product information to help you deploy, manage, and scale our platform to fit your business use cases.
For additional in-depth technical documentation regarding KorGrid's underlying hypervisor technology, you can visit docs.verge.io.
Distributed Storage
- vSAN - The Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) is a fundamental component that tightly integrates storage into the Virtual Data Center (VDC). It provides a distributed, multi-tiered storage foundation for all workloads.
- NAS - The Network Attached Storage (NAS) feature provides file-level storage/access within your VDC, allowing you to create volumes of files to store on your vSAN and mount external file systems.
- Files - Easily upload and manage your individual ISOs, disk images, logos, and other files. Or leverage existing files shared to your VDC from KorGrid.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Snapshots - Protect your data and operations with restore points for the entire system and individual tenants/VMs/NAS volumes.
- Site Syncs - Replicate copies of your complete system off-site, ready for quick recovery.
Compute Virtualization
- Remote Console - Obtain real-time, in-guest access to your workloads directly from the user interface.
- Live VM Migrations - Resiliency that automatically handles VM migrations during maintenance, updates, and after hardware failures (sufficient resources required).
- Manual VM Migrations - Manually move workloads as needed for optimal resource utilization.
- VM Recipes - Automate and streamline your workload deployments with customizable templates.
- Golden Images - Standardize VM deployments using a "master copy" of pre-configured VM drives for compliance, security, and management optimization.
Import Existing Workloads
- VMware VM Imports - Import entire VMware workload environments non-disruptively.
- Import from Media Images - Upload individual VM disk and configuration files (e.g. vmdk / vhd / vhdx, ovf / ova, qcow / qcow2, vmx, raw) to the vSAN for importing workloads.
- NAS Volume Imports - Perform individual or batch VM imports directly from source storage.
Multi-Tenancy
Tenants allow you to segregate system resources into secure enclaves for different customers, business groups, and projects.
- Tenant Recipes - Accelerate and standardize tenant deployment for efficiency, compliance, and self-serve systems.
- Tenant-level Reporting for Billing - Track resource usage per tenant to facilitate billing, auditing, and/or planning purposes.
- Tenant Snapshots - Restore any tenant from your complete-system cloud snapshot, while each tenant can also have the ability to control their own individual snapshot and retention schedule.
Software-Defined Networking
- Virtual Networks - Create up to thousands of virtual networks and optionally use embedded IP management for DHCP, DNS, firewall, routing, NAT/PAT.
- Micro Segmentation - Segment and isolate workloads at the VDC (tenant) level, by groups or at the individual workload (VM) level.
- Fine-tuned Network Control (Rules) - Use network rules for very precise control of traffic at each virtual network (routes, translations (NAT/PAT), and security policies).
- Granular Traffic Monitoring - Measure and analyze network traffic per network rule for performance optimization.
- VPN - Establish secure-tunnel remote access and site-to-site connections using WireGuard and IPsec.
- Integrated Network Diagnostics - Utilize convenient and comprehensive network troubleshooting tools for each network, directly from the dashboard.
- Port Mirroring Option - Duplicate all of a network's traffic to a VM for in-depth monitoring or analysis with your tool of choice.
User Management
- Granular User Permissions - Configure precise access control for all your objects with role-based permissions.
- Multifactor Authentication (MFA) - Ensure only authorized users access your systems and data by requiring an added layer of authentication
- OIDC Identity Management - Centralize user identity administration.
- Third-party Identity Integration - Employ your existing OAuth2 management systems (such as Okta, GitLab, Azure AD/Entra, or Google Cloud Identity) for management logins.
Monitoring & Alerting
- Comprehensive Dashboard System - Gain operational oversight of your entire system from the intuitive, overview-to-detail dashboard navigation model.
- Subscriptions - Create customized, automated alerts and reports to be delivered to appropriate personnel and/or external monitoring systems.
- Third-Party Log Support - Automatically forward log data, in your preferred format, to external log management solutions, such as Graylog.
Automation
- Recipes - Create customizable templates for accelerated workload and VDC deployments while enforcing important policies.
- Task Engine - Establish automatic operations to trigger based on schedule and/or events for streamlined operations.
- API-First Design - Optimize operations with programmatic automation of core functions through comprehensive RESTful APIs.