Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers: Features & Benefits

To meet your complex enterprise virtualization challenges, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers offers the following benefits:

• robust virtualization management features,
• record-breaking virtualization performance and scalability,
• proven enterprise security,
• advanced hypervisor features, and
• a complete ecosystem of supported hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Learn about:

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 2.2 Features

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers is a feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including:

• New! Import and Export: Import and Export Red Hat Enterprise VMs in OVF (open virtualization format).
• New! V2V Conversion Tools: Import Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests from Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Xen or VMWare. Additional converters coming soon.
• New! Backup and Restore Support: Support from leading third-party backup vendors for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VM backup using agents in the VM.
• New! Reporting Engine: Documented database schema and sample reports for extracting information from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
• Live migration: Allows virtual machines to be moved from one host to another while running with no affect on performance.
• New! Prioritized High availability: Critical VMs restart automatically on a new host when hardware fails. New priority feature allows you to rank VMs in case not all highly available VMs can be restarted on remaining hardware, ensuring your mission-critical applications always have priority.
• Maintenance manager: Allows hosts to be upgraded and maintained while virtual machines are running.
• Image manager: Enables thin provisioning of disk storage and use of templates to quickly build new virtual machines from standard configurations.
• System scheduler: Allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to migrate virtual machines across multiple hosts to balance workloads.
• Power saver: Allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to consolidate virtual machines on a smaller number of hosts during non-peak hours and power down unneeded hosts.
• New! Search Driven User Interface with tagging: Allows you to search both on virtual machine and host characteristics as well as arbitrary tags you can assign.
• Consistent Management Environment for Server and Desktop

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 2.2 features

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is based on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and inherits the scalability, security, and performance of the enterprise-hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.