RedHat releases Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor (REVH) and Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS).
RedHat's strategy in the world of virtualization takes shape simp. clearer: after his release in September pattaforma server RedHat Enterprise Linux version 5.4 with the introduction of KVM, also releases two key components for 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 / ICR
- Support up to 64 physical CPUs (256 cores)
- Support up to 1TB of physical memory
- Support for guest systems with up to 16 vCPU VRAM and 64GB
- Support for the bonding of physical network adapters and multipath I / O
- Support for NFS, iSCSI and Fibre 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 features:
- 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 moving VMs off the host and on a few remaining)
- Thin provisioning VMs
- Snapshots of VM
The two products are sold together in a Boundle 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 these KVM "vanilla" or a modified version of Red Hat? Why KVM I felt a bit ', but I do not even put into production stable
The KVM is an open source project started by Qumranet, which in 2008 was bought by RedHat , so the product can not be that. Obviously Red Hat is able to provide support for any problems ...
KVM is actually one of the last born in the world of Virtualization: linux kernel developers are convinced that their kernel must be able to do anything better than the others, operating system, hypervisor, real time, routers, firewalls, set- top boxes, coffee ...
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