Red Hat offers hybrid platform combining datacenter virtualization
and management across the public and private cloud with Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.3
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.3, featuring expanded datacenter virtualization and
management along with seamless workload scaling and integration.
Designed to deliver traditional datacenter virtualization while
providing an on-ramp to OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
enables a wide variety of enterprises to deploy traditional and elastic
workloads on their existing infrastructure without impacting service
levels, performance or scalability. The newest version of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization enables customers to deploy a common set of
OpenStack services (Compute, Storage and Networking) that can be used by
their datacenter virtualization platform through Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, as well as their private cloud through Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. With a cohesive environment between
the private cloud and the datacenter, a variety of enterprises may now
deploy traditional and elastic workloads without having to duplicate
infrastructure layers.
The newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization includes several
enhanced infrastructure, networking and storage features to enhance
developer portability across a heterogeneous cloud environment,
including:
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A new self-hosted engine, allowing the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization manager to be deployed as a virtual machine on the
host, reducing hardware requirements;
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Back-up and restore API integration, now including a new backup
infrastructure providing a rich API set for third party software
vendors to backup and restore their virtual machines; and
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Support for OpenStack Glance and OpenStack Neutron, enabling
users to store their virtual machine templates and enable advanced
networking configurations with a shared infrastructure between private
clouds and datacenter virtualization.
Fully Supported, Updated and Integrated External Applications
In June 2013, Red Hat introduced a third-party plug-in framework for Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2. With the plug-in framework, third
parties can integrate new features and actions directly into the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization management user interface. Since the
announcement, the below industry leaders have completed the development
of their plug-ins. These fully supported plug-ins include:
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HP: The HP Insight Control Plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization provides actionable, valuable insight on underlying HP
hardware. The plug-in simplifies operations, enhances reliability and
minimizes downtime by enabling administrators to combine physical and
virtual views within a single management platform;
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NetApp: The NetApp Virtual Storage Console for RHEV enables
rapid cloning of NetApp virtual machines, and allows NFS storage
discovery, provisioning and modification from within Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager and
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Symantec: SymantecTM Veritas Cluster Server powered
by Veritas provides automated disaster recovery functionality to keep
applications up and running. Veritas Cluster Server enables
application specific fail-over and significantly reduces recovery time
by eliminating the need to restart applications in case of a failure.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"Red Hat's consistent improvements to the open KVM hypervisor and its
concurrent virtualization management offerings now allow more customers
to take control of their datacenters and build individualized paths to a
private cloud infrastructure. With new additions to the third-party
plug-ins offered by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3, it offers a
fundamental core for Red Hat's OpenStack-powered cloud offerings."
Scott Shaffer, Director Servers Platform Software, HP Enterprise
Group,
"The release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 represents a
significant step in open source virtualization that can easily and
rapidly be deployed on HP's ConvergedSystem for Virtualization for a
balanced system supporting a variety of application environments. As a
complementary solution, HP's Insight Control for Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization offers direct integration of the RHEV-M console with HP
ProLiant, decreasing costs and datacenter complexity by providing a
comprehensive view to manage and monitor both physical and virtual
environments."
Patrick Rogers, vice president, Data Center Platforms, NetApp
"As open source virtualization gains momentum, NetApp is looking forward
to our continued collaboration with Red Hat to enable our customers'
success," said Patrick Rogers, vice president, Data Center Platforms,
NetApp. "The NetApp Virtual Storage Console for RHEV will drive
streamlined operations between NetApp NFS and the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager, enabling simplified discovery, provisioning,
modification and rapid cloning."
Doug Matthews, vice president, Information Availability Product
Management, Symantec Corporation
"The on-going availability of Symantec Cluster Server for Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization continues our longstanding collaboration with
Red Hat to offer enterprises of all sizes, trusted availability
solutions for their applications and information. Through our
collaboration, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 customers can
experience seamless automated disaster recovery, with better
availability and performance for their business-critical applications."
Silviu Popa, Head of IT, Hidroconstructia
"Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization allowed us to easily create
snapshots of virtual machines, and move them seamlessly from testing to
production environment while allowing us to keep focus on delivering our
construction projects on time and within budget. The learning curve is
shorter with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and our platform has
been stable for two years with no incidents since the initial
deployment."
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