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Univention Virtual Machine Manager

🇩🇪 DE · Free plan · paid from €1,295/yr

KVM virtualization management for on-prem and hybrid cloud

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Univention Virtual Machine Manager is a web-based tool for managing KVM virtual machines and cloud instances within Univention Corporate Server. It supports live migration, storage pools, and multi-OS guest management across on-prem, OpenStack, and AWS EC2. Bundled with UCS, it is open source under AGPLv3 and available in the free Core Edition.

Replaces

Univention Virtual Machine Manager is sought as a European alternative to:

Features

Hypervisor and VM lifecycle management

  • Central creation, start, stop, pause, resume, and termination of VMs via Univention Management Console (UMC)
  • Support for paravirtualized disk and device access
  • Guest OS support for Linux and Windows

Resource monitoring and performance controls

  • Real-time CPU and RAM utilization display for virtualization hosts
  • RAM overcommitment protection settings
  • Hyper-V Enlightenments support for Windows guest machines

Migration and high availability

  • Live migration of running VMs between host nodes (configurable by CPU compatibility)
  • Migration of stopped VMs across hosts

Storage and snapshot management

  • Storage pool provisioning (including iSCSI LUN integration)
  • Direct VM snapshot creation via UVMM context menu

Remote console and access management

  • Integrated remote desktop/console access via VNC
  • Configurable global session passwords

Pricing

UCS Core Edition (UVMM included)
Free perpetual
  • Full functionality
  • Security updates included
  • No user limits
  • No commercial support
UCS Standard Subscription (UCS 5.x, UVMM discontinued)
€1,295 per year
  • Enterprise support included
  • Annual billing
  • UVMM no longer available in UCS 5.x
UCS Legacy Subscriptions (UCS 4.x, historical)
$349 per server or €290–€319 per year (server-based or per 10 users/domain)
  • Additional clients at $16.90 per client
  • Tiered support and maintenance options
  • Extended maintenance up to 7 years

UVMM was discontinued in UCS 5.x; pricing reflects historical or current UCS subscriptions where UVMM was included at no extra cost.

EU Trust Profile

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  • European legal entityUnivention GmbH, Bremen (DE)
    Evidence
  • Self-hosting available

    On-premises deployment is the primary model for UVMM and UCS.

    Evidence

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Reviews

Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.

What users value

  • Central web-based management via Univention Management Console
  • Tight integration with UCS identity management (LDAP/Active Directory)
  • Pre-configured deployment profiles for rapid VM setup
  • Hybrid management of on-premises KVM and cloud environments (e.g., Amazon EC2, OpenStack)
  • Broad guest OS support for flexible workloads
  • Open-source licensing with no additional cost
  • Solid baseline performance using KVM hypervisor

Where users see room to improve

  • · Feature limitations compared to dedicated enterprise hypervisors
  • · Discontinued in UCS 5.0, requiring migration to alternatives like Proxmox
  • · Ecosystem dependency and lock-in risk with UCS

Integrations

KVMQEMUlibvirtXen (deprecated)OpenStackAmazon Web Services (AWS) / EC2Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Red Hat VirtIO driversMicrosoft Windows guest OS toolsNagios

Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-09-21), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.