Red Hat Powers New Generation of High-Performance Virtualization Based on Open Standards with Red Hat Virtualization 4
KVM-based virtualization platform designed to streamline the
virtualization of traditional workloads while providing a more secure
and scalable foundation for hybrid cloud and container-based 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
Virtualization 4, the newest release of its Kernel-based Virtual Machine
(KVM) -powered virtualization platform. Red Hat Virtualization 4
challenges the economics and complexities of proprietary virtualization
solutions by providing a fully-open, high-performing, more secure, and
centrally managed platform for both Linux- and Windows-based workloads.
It combines a powerful updated hypervisor, advanced system dashboard,
and centralized networking for users’ evolving workloads. Built on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization 4 is designed to easily
integrate with existing IT investments while providing a foundation for
emerging technology deployments, including containerized and
cloud-native applications.
While virtualization remains a key element of datacenter infrastructure,
customer needs around the technology are rapidly evolving. Enterprises
just embarking on a virtualization deployment may want a complete, agile
platform that embraces efficiency and open standards of
interoperability, while enterprises who have already deployed
virtualization technologies may become increasingly concerned about
their investment due to costs, performance limitations, or
incompatibility. Red Hat Virtualization 4 is designed to address these
emerging scenarios with a platform built on open standards, providing a
powerful, flexible solution for new deployments and helping existing
virtualization users migrate to an open, extensible solution.
Red Hat Virtualization 4 includes both a high-performing hypervisor (Red
Hat Virtualization Host) and a web-based virtualization resource
manager (Red Hat Virtualization Manager) for management of an
enterprise’s virtualization infrastructure. Specifically, Red Hat
Virtualization 4 introduces new and enhanced capabilities around:
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Performance and extensibility
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Management and automation
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Support for OpenStack and Linux containers
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Security and reliability
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Centralized networking through an external, third-party API
Performance and Extensibility
Red Hat Virtualization 4 introduces a new powerful and smaller
footprint hypervisor co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.2. The new hypervisor helps streamline the installation of system
packages and driver updates, simplify the deployment of modern
technologies, and provide better hardware support configuration
management integration. Additionally, Red Hat Virtualization can now be
installed via Anaconda, the common installer for both Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Virtualization hypervisor.
The new platform also includes support for advanced network
functionality, helping to simplify the process of adding and supporting
third party network providers via a new open API. This feature allows
for the centralization and simplification of network management systems
by enabling Red Hat Virtualization Manager to communicate with external
systems to define networking characteristics that can be applied to a
virtual machine’s network interfaces.
Management and automation
To improve overall virtualization management, Red Hat Virtualization 4
offers an advanced system dashboard that provides a comprehensive
view of virtualized resources and infrastructure. This enables
administrators to better diagnose and remediate problems before they
impact operations. Additional automation functionality includes:
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A storage image uploader, which provides a browser-based
interface to upload existing KVM Virtual Machine files directly or via
a remote URL, placing the image in the storage domain without
requiring third party tools.
- Advanced live migration policies to enable users to fine-tune
granular migration characteristics of hosts, down to an individual VM
or cluster level, enabling faster operations and overall performance.
OpenStack and Linux containers
While virtualization as a technology is mature, Red Hat Virtualization 4
provides key support features for Linux container-based workloads as
well as OpenStack private and hybrid cloud deployments. For containers,
Red Hat Virtualization 4 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
as a configurable guest system and allows guest agents to be run as, and
report on, containers on the Atomic Host VM.
Red Hat Virtualization 4 also provides native support for Red Hat
OpenStack Platform Neutron. This enables organization to streamline
shared services and minimize their operational footprint by deploying
services more seamlessly across traditional and cloud-enabled workloads.
A More Secure Virtualization Environment
These newly-introduced features in Red Hat Virtualization 4 complement
the security assets brought to Red Hat Virtualization through its base
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Virtualization 4 includes and
supports sVirt, which applies Mandatory Access Control (MAC) for greater
VM and hypervisor security. This helps to improve overall security and
harden the physical and virtual environment against vulnerabilities that
could be used as an attack vector against the host or other VMs.
Red Hat Virtualization is also integrated with Red Hat Satellite, Red
Hat’s systems management solution. Red Hat Virtualization standardizes
infrastructure and virtual machine guest provisioning through existing
Red Hat Satellite 6 implementations. It also provides visibility into
the host and virtual machine errata details to ensure patch compliance
across a physical and virtual environment.
Availability
Red Hat Virtualization 4 is available as a standalone offering, as an
integrated offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and as part of Red
Hat Cloud Suite as part of a comprehensive solution. Existing
subscribers can upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization 4 through the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Gunnar Hellekson, director, product management, Linux and
Virtualization, Red Hat
“Our customers continue to rely on virtualization as a vital part of
their datacenter modernization efforts while also using it to help
bridge to new cloud-native and container-based workloads. Red Hat
Virtualization provides the economics, performance and agility needed
across both traditional and new infrastructure initiatives.”
Gary Chen, research manager, Software Defined Compute, IDC
“While virtualization remains a key underpinning for the modern
datacenter, customer needs are rapidly evolving to demand more than
simply virtualizing traditional workloads. Modern virtualization
platforms need to address these standard scenarios while making way for
the emergence of virtualized containers and cloud computing, key aspects
that Red Hat Virtualization can address in an open, extensible fashion.”
Paulo Dutra, Data Processing Center manager, Caja de Valores
"Red Hat Virtualization has enabled us to streamline our operations and
automate our disaster recovery process, reducing our risk from manual
intervention and helping to cut our system recovery time in half.
Without Red Hat Virtualization, we would not have been capable of
managing the number of servers we projected, and we were able to add
more virtual machines without additional monetary investment."
Scott Farrand, vice president, Platform Software, HPE
“Customer needs are continuing to evolve and their infrastructure has to
keep pace. Red Hat’s enhancements provide HPE’s customers better cost
and performance with multiple ways to deploy and use this technology in
an open source environment.”
Thomas Wenninger, chief operating officer, IT-Services and head of IT
Infrastructure, Universität Salzburg
"Partnering with Red Hat to build our PLUS Web Services project has
enabled us to extend the benefits of a flexible, private cloud platform
to more than 20,000 of our students and employees and consolidate 30
department sites and computer centers into a single cloud
infrastructure. Through a combination of Red Hat Virtualization and Red
Hat’s management solutions, we received extensive support for the design
and implementation of our new private cloud. The open interfaces of Red
Hat’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions enabled our cloud solution
to maintain compatibility with major standards and prevent vendor
lock-in for the future.”
Bob Zuber, director of product management, Lenovo Data Center Group
"Red Hat Virtualization 4 provides a robust set of enterprise features
that help us deliver maximized performance and a lower total cost of
ownership. And the cross-platform scalability for both Linux and Windows
workloads enables us to meet the diverse needs of our customers. When
coupled with the industry-leading reliability of our servers, a Red Hat
Virtualization 4 on Lenovo solution adds maximum reliability to the
performance and cost of ownership benefits.”
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