Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation

The Complete Enterprise Virtualisation Solution for server workloads

Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualisation is a complete virtualisation management solution for servers, powered by the people who brought you Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, you can maintain business continuity. Scale and integrate both Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads. And extend beyond bare metal. All while taking advantage of the performance benefits, competitive pricing, and trusted, stable environment you expect from Red Hat.

Ready for the Enterprise

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers 3.1 is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a platform trusted by thousands of organisations on millions of systems around the world for mission-critical workloads. So you know it's enterprise-ready, letting you extend your existing infrastructure, build for the future to embrace new opportunities, and maintain the business continuity that your organisation demands.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation features:

• NEW! Live snapshots let you preserve the live virtual-machine state without interruption to users. Excellent for testing and development environments.
• NEW! Storage live migration delivers the flexibility to migrate virtual-machine disk files between storage domains without having to power down the virtual machine.
• NEW! Integrated POSIX file system support provides integration with Red Hat Storage and an improved unified storage management console.
• NEW! Integrated reporting, an updated historical reporting engine, gives you an integrated dashboard that provides a wide range of reports at the datacenter, cluster, host, and virtual-machine level.
• NEW! Web administration portal is now fully HTML-based, including the integrated reporting dashboard.
• NEW! Hot plug/unplug networks let you easily change a virtual machine's network interface without interruption.
• NEW! Enhanced user management adds assignable quotas for storage, CPU, and memory to power users.
• NEW! New disk management interface, including management for internal and external (direct-attached LUN) disks.
• NEW! Increased host and guest scalability.
• NEW! Improved hypervisor support for the latest industry-standard processors:
• Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs (code named "Sandy Bridge"
• AMD 15h, or Opteron G4, CPUs (code named "Bulldozer")
• Live virtual-machine migration.
• Industry-leading security with SELinux and sVirt.
• Intuitive self-service user portal.
• An intuitive, centralized graphical administration console.
• The widest ecosystem of hardware and enterprise independent software vendors (ISVs).
• The lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in its class.
• Built on the record-setting Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.

The ideal platform on which to build an internal or private cloud of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows virtual machines (VMs) and applications.

Does Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation work?

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation offers leading performance, security, manageability, and much more. It's based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, and the oVirt.org virtualisation management project.

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Manager is a centralised management system that lets system administrators view and manage virtual machines and images, providing a graphical user interface to administer the physical and logical resources.

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Hypervisor is a full-featured virtualisation platform for quick, easy deployment and management of virtualised Linux and Windows guests. The hypervisor is designed for management via the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Manager, providing a thin virtualisation layer deployed across the server infrastructure.

The hypervisor can be deployed as either of the following:

1. The standalone bare-metal hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Hypervisor (included).
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (optional, purchased separately) installed as a hypervisor host and managed through RHEV Manager.

We recommend that you contact our Red Hat certified solutions specialists to discuss your requirements so that we can advise the correct subscriptions for your needs. 

Coming very soon!  All the Red Hat Virtualisation products may be purchased through our online store if you know exactly what you're after, but please remember you will need your RHN ID when you do so.  Keep an eye out for further information on the launch date, our online store is currently under construction.

What is a Red Hat Network (RHN) ID?

When you purchase a Red Hat software subscription you will need to have or register for a Red Hat Network account (or RHN for short) as this is where your entitlements are delivered electronically.  If you don't already have an RHN account, you can register for one here

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