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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 efciency. 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.
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:• Perform maintenance on hosts
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 technology1
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.
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Scalability
Host:• Up to 256 cores, 1 TB RAM
Guest:• Up to 16vCPU, 64 GB RAM
Clusters:• Over 50 hosts per cluster
Predictable, scalable performance for enterprise work-•
loads from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Apache, etc.
Robust, proven security model
Built on proven, stable, and secure Red Hat•
Enterprise Linux. Including SELinux security infrastruc-
ture developed in conjunction with US National Security
Agency (NSA).
Advanced features
Memory page sharing, advanced scheduling capabilities, •
and more, inherited from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
kernel
Guest operating system support
Paravirtualized network and block drivers for highest•
performance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests (32-bit and 64-bit): •
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5
Microsoft• ®Windows® Guests (32-bit and 64-bit):
Windows 2003 server, Windows 2008 server, Windows
XP. SVVP, and WHQL certied
Hardware support
All 64-bit x86 servers that support Intel VT or •
AMD-V technology and are certied for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 are certied for Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization supports NAS/NFS, •
Fibre Channel, and iSCSI storage topologies.
PRICING AND PACKAGING
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is available
as a subscription including Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager for Servers and the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization bare metal hypervisor. Optionally,
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can manage Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (purchased separately) deployed as hyper-
visor nodes.
Red Hat's simple subscription price structure provides 40
to 80 percent lower cost compared to other solutions for
the same feature set. The subscription model allows cus-
tomers to take advantage of future roadmap infrastructure
advancements at no incremental cost.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Hypervisor hosts: 64-bit capable x86 servers supporting
Intel VT or AMD-V hardware virtualization technology and
certied for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
Must be running the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
bare metal Hypervisor (included with Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization) or optionally Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
or later (purchased separately)
Management server: x86 server running US English
language version of Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2,
.Net 3.5 or later, Application Server role installed Windows
Server 2008 not supported
Management console: x86 desktop or server running
Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows Vista, Windows 7,
Windows Server 2003 or later, and Internet Explorer 6-8
WHAT NEXT?
For more information, please go to http://www.redhat.
com/virtualization or contact your local Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization reseller.
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