Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 Globally Available with New
Features Spanning Scalability, Networking and Storage, Including
Integration with Red Hat Storage
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced advancements for its enterprise
virtualization platform with the global availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization forward with compelling new features to enhance its
scalability, user administration and management interface, networking,
storage and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat
also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its
Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
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 Jan. 2012, marked a significant industry milestone,
offering features, performance, scalability and cost advantages to
enterprises. Today, with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's Kernel-based
Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor holds 19 of the 27 published
SPECvirt_sc2010 (www.spec.org)
performance benchmarks, including the best 2-socket and 4-socket scores
and the only published 8-socket scores. At 50 to 70 percent lower cost
compared to alternative solutions, it can also offer organizations
significant economic advantages.
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
received from its Oct. 2011 acquisition of Gluster, Inc., Red
Hat Storage Server 2.0 became available worldwide in June 2012,
providing enterprise customers with open, unified scale-out storage
software.
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 Red Hat customers today. A fully supported, 60-day trial of
the release is also available at www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3.
Virtual Event and Announcement
To learn more about this announcement and to hear from Red Hat
executives, partners and customers about Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, join Red Hat for its Optimizing
IT virtual event beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Dec. 5,
2012. The keynote and presentations will also be available on demand
following the live event. Join by visiting https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=11689&AffiliateData=press.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Product and Technologies at Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a key platform in the Red Hat
portfolio that enables enterprises to leverage the power of the open
source development model to drive innovation for virtualization. The 3.1
release is an important milestone for the product as it delivers key
features and integrations that our customers are looking for. The
integration of the product with Red Hat Storage, for example, brings
virtual storage capabilities to enterprises that are not currently
available in traditional virtualization solutions."
Robert Hurst, Caché Systems manager, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
"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."
Satinder Sethi, vice president, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
"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 Red Hat
offer flexible and scalable capabilities for diverse datacenter
workloads and their business needs."
Gerry Hackett, vice president, Server Platform Engineering, Dell
"We're pleased to continue evolving our relationship with Red Hat around
virtualization and cloud computing. For those customers interested in
open source, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a natural fit for Dell
systems and enables us to provide compelling performance, scalability,
flexibility and cost benefits to our joint customers. This goes a step
further with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1
today."
Doug Fischer, vice president and general manager of Systems Software,
Intel
"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."
Maria Olson, Head of Global Alliances, NetApp
"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 Red Hat to enable our
customers to choose the best solutions for their environments. The
combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 and NetApp® Data
ONTAP®, the world's #1 storage operating system, delivers compelling
benefits to organizations seeking open virtualization solutions."
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