Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers the ideal platform for both
traditional and cloud-enabled workloads
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.5, enabling organizations to deploy an IT
infrastructure that services traditional virtualization workloads while
creating an enterprise-grade foundation for cloud infrastructure. Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 delivers standardized services for
mission critical workloads, and offers IT organizations greater
visibility into provisioning, configuring and monitoring of their
virtualization infrastructure, all based on open standards.
Red
Hat is a recognized leader in the scale and performance of virtual
machine workloads, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 extends
this leadership with support for four terabytes (4 TB) of memory per
host, 4 TB of vRAM, and 160 vCPUs per virtual machine.
Notable new features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 include:
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Lifecycle management and provisioning of bare-metal hosts via
integration with Red Hat Satellite.
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Compute resource optimization through advanced real-time
analytics with oVirt Optimizer integration. This enables users to
identify the balance of resource allocation that best meets their
needs while provisioning new virtual machines.
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Workload performance and scalability provided through
non-uniform memory access (NUMA) support, which is extended to Host
NUMA, Guest Pinning and Virtual NUMA. This enables customers to deploy
highly scalable workloads with improved performance and minimizes
resource overload related to physical memory access times.
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Enhanced disaster recovery via improved storage domain
handling, providing support for migrating storage domains between
different datacenters supported by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,
enabling partner technologies to deliver site recovery capabilities.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also serves as an ideal foundation for
both traditional virtualization and highly flexible cloud-enabled
workloads built on OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5
includes features that enhance this foundation for cloud-enabled
workloads:
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Integration and shared common services with OpenStack Image Service
(Glance) and OpenStack Networking (Neutron), available as a Tech
Preview, enabling administrators to break down silos and to deploy
resources once across the infrastructure.
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Instance types, unifying the process of provisioning virtual
machines for both virtual and cloud-enabled workloads.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Availability
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As a standalone offering - Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 -
including Hypervisor and Manager for virtualized enterprise workloads
for supported guest operating systems.
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As an integrated offering called Red Hat Enterprise Linux with
Smart Virtualization, aimed at customers looking to maximize the
benefits of their virtualized infrastructure with Linux workloads.
This offering combines the innovation, performance, scalability,
reliability and security features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the
advanced virtualization management capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization.
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Via Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive solution that
supports organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter
virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds. Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure is a single subscription offering that includes Red Hat
CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
"As more enterprises look to reap the benefits of bimodal IT in
their virtualized and cloud-based environments, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization offers a key component of an infrastructure ready to
accommodate traditional enterprise virtualization while building a
foundation for cloud enabled workloads."
Steven Bellistri, manager, IT, LDI Integrated Pharmacy Services
"The healthcare industry is undergoing significant changes that require
us to rapidly adopt to new business and regulatory compliance
requirements. Because Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is built on open
standards that enable flexibility and fast innovation, we can more
quickly adopt our IT infrastructure and deploy services with stability
and speed."
Lucas Harms, senior infrastructure engineer, Speed Commerce, Inc.
"With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, we are able to deploy stable
and efficient offerings that handle our enterprise compute needs while
still being able to integrate into a larger hybrid cloud solution
through the use of common open source virtualization technologies."
Doug Matthews, vice president, Information Availability, Symantec
"Symantec's continued collaboration with Red Hat provides customers with
seamless, global availability for their bimodal IT environments, whether
it is quality of service for critical applications on physical Red Hat
Enterprise Linux platforms or more future-looking Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization based OpenStack environments."
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