Russia’s zVirt Max Virtualization Platform Moves Into the Commercial League
Russia has updated zVirt Max, a virtualization system designed for secure IT environments where foreign platforms cannot be used, bringing its capabilities in line with full-scale commercial products.
zVirt Max is a virtualization platform that allows organizations to run and manage virtual servers, networks, and data storage on physical hardware. In simple terms, it replaces classic products such as VMware in infrastructures where control, security, and regulatory compliance are critical. The platform is used to build private clouds, server clusters, and fault-tolerant IT systems for government agencies and large enterprises.
Security Catches Up With Commercial Features
The platform’s developer, Orion soft, has released zVirt Max version 1.2. Previously, the security-certified edition lagged behind commercial versions in terms of functionality. With this update, that gap has been closed. The release introduces 19 new features, bringing the certified version up to the level of zVirt 4.4–4.5.
The system is certified by Russia’s Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) at trust level four. This allows it to be used in critical environments, including first-category critical information infrastructure, industrial control systems, government information systems, and environments that process personal data. The platform supports trusted boot for virtual machines, data integrity monitoring, security event auditing, access control, and backup mechanisms.
Designed With Administrators in Mind
From a practical standpoint, zVirt Max 1.2 is more convenient for system administrators. The update adds a full-featured software-defined networking management module. Through a web interface, administrators can configure microsegmentation, routing, IP addressing, and traffic handling. Storage balancing by volume has also been introduced, either manually or automatically on a schedule.
Large-scale infrastructures also benefit from a new approach to organizing virtual machines. They can now be grouped into nested folders with up to 15 levels of depth, making it easier to allocate resources across teams and projects. The platform supports live migration of virtual machines between hosts and clusters, migration from other virtualization platforms, and backup of the management system’s configuration.
Russian software is gradually moving beyond compromise solutions and becoming a solid foundation for complex, secure IT systems.
