Red Hat Brings Storage Live Migration and Third-Party Plug-in
Framework to Enterprise Virtualization Offering
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2013
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.2, with fully supported Storage Live Migration and a
new third-party plug-in framework. As part of Red Hat's open hybrid
cloud offerings, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the industry's
only mission-critical end-to-end, open source virtualization
infrastructure designed for enterprise users and global organizations.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 is designed to meet an increasing
industry need for open virtualization solutions without compromising
performance, scalability, security or features. Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization is also an essential component of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure, which combines traditional datacenter virtualization
features provided by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, cloud-enabled
infrastructure provided by Red Hat OpenStack, and hybrid cloud
management provided by Red Hat CloudForms, to deliver a comprehensive
open hybrid cloud solution for customers seeking to adopt cloud-enabled
applications and infrastructure in coexistence with their traditional
infrastructure and migrate over time as their needs demand.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 brings a vast array of new
features, including:
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Fully supported Storage Live Migration, allowing virtual
machine images to be moved from one storage domain to another without
disrupting service;
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Support for the latest industry-standard processors from Intel and
AMD, including Intel Haswell series and AMD Opteron G5 processors;
and
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Enhancements in storage management, networking management, fencing
and power management, Spice console enhancements, logging and
monitoring, and more.
New Third-Party Plug-ins
A key feature in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 is the
availability of a new third-party plug-in framework. Developed through
community and vendor collaboration and contributions, the plug-in
framework enables third parties to integrate new features and actions
directly into the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization management user
interface. New menu items, panes, and dialog boxes allow users to access
the new functionality the same way they use Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization's native functionality. The framework continues to evolve
based on vendor and community requests, and any vendor may choose to
consume the plug-in framework and add unique functionality to Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization.
Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to
integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the
new plug-in, including high availability and disaster recovery solutions
from NetApp, Symantec, and Insight Control from HP:
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NetApp: Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization helps improve efficiency while reducing cost and
complexity in virtual environments using NetApp storage. VSC provides
integrated virtual storage management, including rapid domain
provisioning and cloning of hundreds of virtual machines, while
enabling Red Hat administrators to access and execute all of these
capabilities using the standard Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
management interface NetApp is now accepting applications for the VSC
for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta.
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Symantec: Veritas Cluster Server from Symantec, the
comprehensive disaster recovery and high availability solution, will
support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 environments. Once
integration is complete, Veritas Cluster Server will offer "push
button" disaster recovery orchestration, and together with the Veritas
Operations Manager Recovery Plan feature completely automate the
failover of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment over to a
disaster recovery site. This includes guests, guest network
reconfiguration, and storage reconfiguration. Veritas Cluster Server
is designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery for
databases, custom applications, and complete multi-tiered applications
across physical and virtual environments over any distance.
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HP: Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a
new plug-in currently being developed by HP to enable deployments
using HP ProLiant servers to view a wealth of information provided by
the HP Insight Control platform. Within the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization graphical interface, administrators can quickly and
easily obtain detailed information on the health of the HP server
hardware.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization, Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 builds on the industry-leading
performance of the KVM hypervisor to offer an enterprise-class
datacenter virtualization and management solution to customers looking
to save costs as well as implement an open architecture. With the
addition of Storage Live Migration and third-party plug-ins from our
industry partners, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's compelling value
proposition to customers virtualizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Windows workloads alike gets stronger."
Patrick Rogers, vice president, Data Center Platforms, NetApp
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 represents a significant step
forward for open source virtualization. With Red Hat's new third-party
plug-in framework, NetApp can now accelerate virtual machine cloning and
provisioning in Red Hat environments. Additionally, with the recent
launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and the clustered Data ONTAP®
8.2 architecture, NetApp and Red Hat are enabling organizations that run
virtualized solutions on Red Hat products to maximize the performance
and scalability of their virtual environments with the industry's first
end-to-end parallel NFS solution."
Doug Matthews, vice president of product management, Information
Availability, Symantec
"Virtualized datacenters require high availability and disaster recovery
capabilities in the same way as traditional server environments. We are
pleased to continue our long-time collaboration with Red Hat to bring
seamless support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 to our
Veritas Cluster Suite to bring customers peace of mind that their most
critical applications and data will be available at all times."
Jaime Arango, Director IDC and Office IT, UNE Telecommunications
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is an essential part of UNE's
expansion and growth. We rely on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to
support all of our internal and external systems, and find that it
offers us consistency, performance, versatility, and cost savings to
help us compete in the highly competitive telecommunications market."
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