RedHat releases Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (REVH) and Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS).
RedHat's strategy in the world takes on a form of virtualization sempe clearer: after the release in September of his pattaforma server RedHat Enterprise Linux version 5.4 with the introduction of KVM, will also issue two key components to the virtual world: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (REVH) and RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS).
RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a version tailored to provide virtualization services with, among others, the following characteristics:
- Support for Intel VT / AMD-V and EPT / RVI
- Supports up to 64 physical CPUs (256 cores)
- Support up to 1TB of physical memory
- Support for systems with up to 16 guest vCPU VRAM and 64GB
- Support for the bonding of physical network cards and I / O multipathing
- Support for NFS, iSCSI and Fiber Channel
- Support for RHEL guest systems (from version 3 to 5) and Windows (2003, 2008 and XP)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS) is the management and configuration with the following characteristics:
- live migration of VMs on shared storage
- high availability of the VM (but requires a card management as IPMI, Dell DRAC, HP iLO, IBM RSA or BladeCenter power management on hosts)
- Virtual machines dynamic resource management
- Methods of maintenance hosts
- Hosts power management (in times of low load moves the VM on and off the remaining few hosts)
- Thin provisioning of VMs
- Snapshots of VM
The two products are sold together in bundles called Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers in the form of subscription, inclusive of support 12 × 5, the target price of $ 499 per socket.
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But this is KVM "vanilla" or a modified version of Red Hat? Why KVM I felt a bit ', but it did seem stable to put into production
The KVM is an open source project started by Qumranet, which in 2008 was bought by RedHat, so the product can only be that. Obviously RedHat is able to provide support for any problems ...
In fact KVM is a recently born into the world of virtualization: the Linux kernel developers are convinced that their kernel must be able to do anything better than the others, operating system, hypervisor, real time, router, firewall, set - top-box, coffee maker ...
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