Red Hat releases Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (REVH) and Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS).
The strategy in the world of Red Hat Virtualization assumes a form sempe clearer: after the release of its September pattaforma server RedHat Enterprise Linux version 5.4 with the introduction of KVM, also releases two key components to the virtual world: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (REVH) and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (REVMS).
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a version tailored to provide virtualization services with, among others, the following characteristics:
- Support for Intel VT / AMD-V 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 and 64GB VRAM
- 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
- Conditions for maintenance of host
- 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 a Boundle called Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers in the form of subscription, inclusive of support 12 × 5, the target price of $ 499 for single socket.
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But it is KVM "vanilla" or a modified version of Red Hat? Why the KVM I felt a bit ', but it does not seem stable yet 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 not be that. Of course, Red Hat is able to provide support for any problems ...
KVM is in fact one of the last born in 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, routers, firewalls, set- top box, coffee machine ...
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