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Virtualization

The newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 update is the first product to deliver commercial quality open source virtualization featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology. By delivering the current performance - leading virtualization technology and the next generation of integrated virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables a smooth transition to the future. With robust single-system management built into the platform and enterprise-wide management available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, you can experience the power of virtualized computing on your server and client systems.

Red Hat Delivers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 -
the Foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

With the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, Red Hat delivers the foundation for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization builds upon and extends the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, trusted by millions of organizations around the world for their most mission-critical workloads, to provide cutting-edge features and performance for enterprise virtualization.

Learn about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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Benefits of Virtualization

Virtualization technology delivers a quantum step in IT operational flexibility, speed of deployment, and application performance and availability. Virtualization allows IT managers to deliver more to their customers while gaining control of their costs. And new and exciting uses for virtualized environments are being developed every day.

With Red Hat virtualization, processing and data resources - servers and storage - are logically grouped into a single resource pool. Virtual servers and storage can then be dynamically allocated, in just a few seconds, as business demands dictate.

Red Hat Sets Virtualization Agenda

Red Hat outlines its virtualization strategy and roadmap for 2009 Red Hat has outlined its plans to significantly expand and enhance its server, client, and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise. Red Hat will deliver a new portfolio of virtualization solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, over the next three to 18 months.

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Red Hat Virtualization Architecture

Server Dude

Server consolidation

Consolidate the load of several lightly loaded servers onto one.

Hardware abstraction

Deploying an older operating system and applications on new hardware is easy.

Resource management and high availability

Move guest instances between systems. Give workloads to be to the most appropriate system. Have continued operation during maintenance periods. And a consistent virtualized server environment makes the deployment of disaster tolerant configurations simpler, practical, and trustworthy.

Application isolation

Encapsulate an application together into a single entity with its operating system, performance and configuration parameters, and security environment. Tightly control and manage your applications, immune from other changes in the IT environment.

Virtualization Products

Currently Shipping: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Advanced Platform includes fully integrated server and storage virtualization, coupled with high availability clustering capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 can be used as a hypervisor in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment, supporting an unlimited number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests.

Currently Shipping: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 server subscriptions can be used as a hypervisor in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment, supporting up to four Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests.

Currently Shipping: Multi-OS desktops Using the Multi-OS option, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop client system can be enhanced to provide support for up to four virtualized guest environments.

Currently Shipping: 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 significantly enhance capital and operational efficiency. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers includes:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers: A feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides centralized management and advanced capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows virtual servers.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A bare-metal, small-footprint hypervisor based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and KVM features high performance and high scalability for hosting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows guests.

Coming Soon: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops: An end-to-end desktop virtualization solution featuring everything an enterprise needs to deploy virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows desktops.