Features deeper integration with OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7
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 3.4, bringing enhancements for traditional virtualization
infrastructure, guest support for the newly released Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7, as well as advanced OpenStack support across compute, storage
and networking in tech preview.
This newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables
organizations to scale their traditional virtualization workloads to an
enterprise-scale level, while providing an on-ramp to deploy cloud
enabled workloads based on OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
has enabled global enterprise
customers
to streamline and optimize their traditional virtualization
infrastructure while building a foundation for private cloud
capabilities. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, Red Hat is
delivering virtualization enterprise features that enable organizations
to build highly available and scalable IT infrastructures including:
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Upgraded affinity/anti-affinity groups, enabling groups of
virtual machines to run together on a single host or independently
across alternative hosts to facilitate setting service levels for
load-balanced applications;
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Template versioning, allowing users to easily update templates
for minor revisions and to use a parent template when provisioning a
new virtual machine, making it ideal for VM pools. Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.4 also offers full support for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 and earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests;
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Enhanced networking through a multi-host network
configuration, providing a simple mechanism to update and
synchronize network configurations across a large number of hosts.
This upgraded configuration also simplifies provisioning and
management of a large number of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
within an environment;
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New Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notification
service within the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4
infrastructure, enabling users to monitor the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization manager with preferred third party monitoring tools; and
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Mixed storage domains, enabling shared, different protocol
types to exist within the same datacenter, including Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI); Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP);
Network File System (NFS); Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
and Gluster.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 also includes a broad suite of
features to help future-proof a traditional virtual infrastructure, as
more advanced virtualization users are adopting cloud-based workloads
and exploring OpenStack deployments. As more enterprises embrace the
cloud to bring agility to their environments, they are turning to
OpenStack to build open and scalable private clouds with streamlined
management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 offers
advanced tech previews of core OpenStack features, enabling
organizations to eliminate silos and facilitate the journey to the
private cloud, including:
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OpenStack Image Service (Glance) integration enhancements, enabling
users to import a Glance image as a template to use in provisioning a
new virtual machine; and
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OpenStack Networking (Neutron) integration enhancements, extending
beyond regular Neutron capabilities by enabling users to create and
delete networks on an external Neutron provider.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization
For enterprises seeking to optimize their virtualized infrastructure for
Linux workloads while reducing cost, Red Hat offers Red
Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization to further extend
the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This offering
combines the performance, scalability and security features of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux with advanced virtualization management capabilities of
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for enterprises looking to get the
most out of their deployments.
Supporting Quote
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"This latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization truly
enables us to provide broader functionality in traditional
virtualization by delivering updates to the enterprise features
customers have come to expect. Proven enterprise adoption of Red Hat's
virtualization solutions across a variety of markets has enabled us to
adapt to growing customer needs for a flexible virtualized
infrastructure and provide the necessary tools for OpenStack adoption to
help customers position themselves to address future needs."
IDC "Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Cloud and Virtualization
System Software, 2013" Doc #245038, Dec 2013
"Virtualization is the new default in the datacenter, with more
virtual than physical servers today. Hypervisor competition and
diversity is beginning to change, but as hypervisors commoditize, the
differentiation is at the cloud system software and management layers."
Scott Farrand, Vice President HP Server Software, HP Enterprise Group
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 delivers advanced open source
enterprise virtualization features that enable customers to optimize
their traditional virtualization workloads. HP is excited about our
continued collaboration with Red Hat to manage HP converged
infrastructure from within the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
management console. HP OneView for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
allows administrators to gain insight and control of their HP
infrastructure while supporting their Red Hat virtualized environment
from a single screen."
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