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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 Globally Available with New Features Spanning Scalability, Networking and Storage, Including Integration with Red Hat Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only mission-critical
end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for
enterprise users that is available today. The Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0 release, which debuted
in
Key 3.1 Feature Additions
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 incorporates several new key features. For its main platform, 3.1 enables increased scalability of guest virtual machines, now providing support for up to 160 logical CPUs and up to 2 terabytes of memory, per virtual machine, and updates its KVM hypervisor to support the latest industry-standard x86 processors. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization shares the same base KVM hypervisor technology as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and maintains common ABI compatibility, enabling optimized flexibility for combining the two platforms from a single vendor.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 also includes an updated user interface, improved cross-platform web administration portal, updated reporting dashboard, new networking capabilities and enhanced disk storage. The incorporation of a technology preview of storage live migration adds the flexibility to migrate virtual machine disk files between storage domains without having to power down the virtual machine. The power user portal has been enhanced with resource quota functionality to enable self-service for test/development and other private cloud use cases. The release also features new advancements for the platform's VDI capabilities, including a new virtual desktop autostart policy, improved WAN optimizations and an improved virtual desktop client.
With 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also expands its localization enablement with support for English, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, enabling the platform to be used even more widely around the globe.
Red Hat Storage Integration
A key addition to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is integration
with Red Hat Storage, Red Hat's scale-out, open source storage software
solution for the management of data, including file and object,
structured and unstructured. Based on the GlusterFS technology
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 provided the ability to access virtual images/storage over iSCSI, Fibre-Channel NFS or on local storage. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, the platform's versatility is now broadened, enabling it to access the secure, shared storage pool managed by Red Hat Storage. In addition to providing the essential building blocks for open hybrid clouds, this integration also offers enterprises reduced operational costs, expanded portability, choice of infrastructure, flexibility, scalability, availability and the power of community-driven innovation with the contributions of the open source oVirt and Gluster projects. The combination of these platforms is the first step toward Red Hat's vision of an integrated and converged Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization node that serves both compute and storage resources.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is globally available to
subscribing
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"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a key platform in the
"As early adopters of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we enjoyed our collaboration that included learning, adoption, migration and implementing a growing new set of Linux applications. And with KVM virtualization radically altering that landscape, it has become necessary for not only a reliable management tool, but also one that can work with our existing datacenter assets and supporting infrastructure. Our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 pilot met that need with remarkably thin integration and allows us to expand provisioning and management of hosts beyond our systems engineering team."
"Red Hat continues to innovate in the open source community, and with
the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, customers are
offered important advances in open virtualization technology that will
allow them to further drive operational efficiency and reduce costs to
operate their datacenters. Together, Cisco and partners like
"We're pleased to continue evolving our relationship with
"Intel's long-time commitment to open, standards-based solutions has consistently delivered top-notch performance and scalability in virtualized environments, with optimization for RAS capabilities and Intel® Virtualization Technology. Organizations can look to the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers for benchmark performance to support their demanding mission-critical applications."
"Red Hat and NetApp have collaborated for over a decade to bring greater
performance, scalability and business agility to our joint customers. As
a recognized leader in storage for virtual environments, NetApp is
committed to working with industry leaders such as
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