Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 Offers Improved Performance, Scale and Security for High-Performance Linux-Based Workloads
Latest release creates easier, more cost-effective path for users
migrating from vSphere 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 3.6. This new version of Red Hat’s KVM-based
virtualization solution offers increased performance, scale, and
security for high-intensity Linux workloads. It also updates user
experience and management tools to help reduce cost and time of VMware
migrations by eliminating the need to purchase a third-party migration
tool. Lowering the costs and sprawl of proprietary virtualization
solutions is a common customer challenge addressed by Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization.
Customized for large computing environments like SAP or Oracle
deployments, as well as compute and graphic-intensive workstations, Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization demonstrated a 36 percent performance
advantage compared to other virtualization solutions in SPECvirt
2013 testing. The new PCI Device Assignment feature is designed to
accelerate high-performance workloads, such as CAD/CAM. This enables a
direct pass through of physical devices to virtual machines helping some
customers to achieve near bare-metal performance for critical resources
while reducing overhead of multiple, expensive workstations.
Other advancements in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 build on Red
Hat’s recognized leadership for scale,
performance and cost-effectiveness of virtual machine workloads with
these new features:
Increased Performance and Scalability
- Hotplug memory support provides dynamic, one-click memory
scaling, working with underlying infrastructure to give an application
more memory “on the fly” while avoiding disruption to the application
runtime.
- PCI device assignment enables administrators to directly assign
a physical adaptor or device to a virtual machine, allowing for near
bare-metal performance for graphics and networking-intensive computing.
Security Updates & Risk Management
- Host Update Manager: Streamlines the patch release process
across the virtualized environment through integration with Red
Hat Satellite, a systems management solution used by half of Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers.
- Object Health Status: Provides visibility into external system
health events, such as issues with storage, CPU, server or hard-drive
performance, via the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization interface. This
feature alerts admins to events that may cause downtime or negatively
impact virtual machine performance, so they can proactively manage
risk and potential downtime.
Simplified VMware Migration
- Virtual machine-to-virtual machine (Virt-v2v) Integration:
Enables customers to identify critical Linux workloads to move to Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization by connecting directly to vCenter and
providing simple click-through steps to migrate the workload over.
This select workload migration strategy can lower total cost of
virtualization and improve performance of mission-critical Linux
workloads without the pain of rip and replace.
Building on previous releases, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6
provides the infrastructure layer for customers to move their workloads
to containers or the cloud. It also integrates with Red Hat’s hybrid
cloud management platform, Red Hat CloudForms, to manage heterogeneous
environments across multiple clouds, hypervisors, containers, and
traditional computing infrastructure.
Supporting Quotes
Gunnar Hellekson, director of Product Management, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Atomic, Red Hat
“Red Hat has enhanced its virtualization platform offering to provide
benefits for organizations moving towards the bimodal IT model. The
simplified workload migration introduced in this newest release of Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables users to combine existing
investments and move away from a fully proprietary virtualization
platform to implement a multi-hypervisor strategy.”
Michael Klüsener, head of SAP Services, Finanz Informatik Technologie
Service
"SAP solutions in the banking industry require a superior level of
performance. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and
the Cisco UCS platform enables us to provide financial service providers
with a highly available, scalable, and secure SAP environment in the
cloud that helps users significantly reduce their operating costs.”
Wing K. Lee, Chief Executive Officer, YTL Communications
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has provided the flexibility we need
to offer a highly reliable and scalable cloud and 4G service in
Malaysia. As the flag-bearer of nationwide 4G service in Malaysia, we
expect that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will continue to enable us
to deliver unparalleled experience to our customers as we embark on
exciting new 4G services to help the country progress and to close the
digital divide.”
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 is available as a standalone
offering, as an integrated offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and
as part of a comprehensive solution called Red
Hat Cloud Infrastructure. Existing subscribers can upgrade to
version Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 through the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
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