Red Hat ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION - DATASHEET FOR SERVERS Datasheet

RED hat ENtERPRISE VIRtUaLIZatION
fOR SERVERS: DataShEEt
Red hat enteRpRise viRtualization foR seRveRs
Red Hat ® Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is an
end-to-end virtualization solution that is designed to
enable pervasive datacenter virtualization, and unlock
unprecedented capital and operational efficiency. Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization for Servers builds upon the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform that is trusted by thou-
®
sands of organizations on millions of systems around the
world for their most mission-critical workloads. It consists
of the following two components:
• Red hat enterprise virtualization Manager for servers
A feature-rich server virtualization management
system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts
and guests, including high availability, live migration,
storage management, system scheduler, and more.
• Red hat enterprise virtualization hypervisor:
A modern hypervisor based on Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM) virtual technology which can be dep-
loyed either as a standalone bare metal hypervisor
(included with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for
Servers), or as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later
(purchased separately) installed as a hypervisor host.
Red hat enteRpRise viRtualization
featuRes and benefits
Robust virtualization management features
• live migration: Dynamically move virtual machines
between hosts with no service interruption.
• high availability: Virtual machines automatically
restart on another host in the case of host failure.
• system scheduler: Balance workloads in the datacenter
by dynamically live-migrating virtual machines based
on resource usage and policy.
:
• power saver: During off-peak hours, concentrate vir-
tual machines on fewer physical hosts to allow some
hosts to be powered down to achieve power savings.
• Maintenance manager:
without guest downtime.
• image manager: Create new virtual machines based
on templates.
• thin provisioning: Allows creation of desktops and
servers based on templates by only storing differences
between new instances and the base template, saving
storage space.
industry-leading performance with KvM technology
• Over 400 active workload VMs on a 32 core, 1 TB server
• Messaging performance of one million messages per
second on a single server and low latency
• Up to 140 percent of bare metal performance with mul-
tiple VMs on a single server compared to a single bare
metal operating system
• Up to 95 percent of bare metal performance for real
world enterprise applications
1 See library under http://www.redhat.com/rhev/server for the latest
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers performance whitepapers
and datasheets.
Perform maintenance on hosts
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