KVM-based virtualization platform designed to
streamline the virtualization of traditional workloads while
providing a more secure and scalable foundation for hybrid cloud
and container-based workloads
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Virtualization 4, the newest release of its Kernel-based
Virtual Machine (KVM) -powered virtualization platform. Red Hat
Virtualization 4 challenges the economics and complexities of
proprietary virtualization solutions by providing a fully-open,
high-performing, more secure, and centrally managed platform for
both Linux- and Windows-based workloads. It combines a powerful
updated hypervisor, advanced system dashboard, and centralized
networking for users’ evolving workloads. Built on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization 4 is designed to easily
integrate with existing IT investments while providing a foundation
for emerging technology deployments, including containerized and
cloud-native applications.
While virtualization remains a key element of datacenter
infrastructure, customer needs around the technology are rapidly
evolving. Enterprises just embarking on a virtualization deployment
may want a complete, agile platform that embraces efficiency and
open standards of interoperability, while enterprises who have
already deployed virtualization technologies may become
increasingly concerned about their investment due to costs,
performance limitations, or incompatibility. Red Hat Virtualization
4 is designed to address these emerging scenarios with a platform
built on open standards, providing a powerful, flexible solution
for new deployments and helping existing virtualization users
migrate to an open, extensible solution.
Red Hat Virtualization 4 includes both a high-performing
hypervisor (Red Hat Virtualization Host) and a web-based
virtualization resource manager (Red Hat Virtualization
Manager) for management of an enterprise’s virtualization
infrastructure. Specifically, Red Hat Virtualization 4 introduces
new and enhanced capabilities around:
- Performance and extensibility
- Management and automation
- Support for OpenStack and Linux
containers
- Security and reliability
- Centralized networking through an
external, third-party API
Performance and Extensibility
Red Hat Virtualization 4 introduces a new powerful and
smaller footprint hypervisor co-engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.2. The new hypervisor helps streamline the
installation of system packages and driver updates, simplify the
deployment of modern technologies, and provide better hardware
support configuration management integration. Additionally, Red Hat
Virtualization can now be installed via Anaconda, the common
installer for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Virtualization hypervisor.
The new platform also includes support for advanced network
functionality, helping to simplify the process of adding and
supporting third party network providers via a new open API. This
feature allows for the centralization and simplification of network
management systems by enabling Red Hat Virtualization Manager to
communicate with external systems to define networking
characteristics that can be applied to a virtual machine’s network
interfaces.
Management and automation
To improve overall virtualization management, Red Hat
Virtualization 4 offers an advanced system dashboard that
provides a comprehensive view of virtualized resources and
infrastructure. This enables administrators to better diagnose and
remediate problems before they impact operations. Additional
automation functionality includes:
- A storage image uploader, which
provides a browser-based interface to upload existing KVM Virtual
Machine files directly or via a remote URL, placing the image in
the storage domain without requiring third party tools.
- Advanced live migration policies
to enable users to fine-tune granular migration characteristics of
hosts, down to an individual VM or cluster level, enabling faster
operations and overall performance.
OpenStack and Linux containers
While virtualization as a technology is mature, Red Hat
Virtualization 4 provides key support features for Linux
container-based workloads as well as OpenStack private and hybrid
cloud deployments. For containers, Red Hat Virtualization 4
supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host as a configurable
guest system and allows guest agents to be run as, and report on,
containers on the Atomic Host VM.
Red Hat Virtualization 4 also provides native support for Red
Hat OpenStack Platform Neutron. This enables organization to
streamline shared services and minimize their operational footprint
by deploying services more seamlessly across traditional and
cloud-enabled workloads.
A More Secure Virtualization Environment
These newly-introduced features in Red Hat Virtualization 4
complement the security assets brought to Red Hat Virtualization
through its base in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat
Virtualization 4 includes and supports sVirt, which applies
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) for greater VM and hypervisor
security. This helps to improve overall security and harden the
physical and virtual environment against vulnerabilities that could
be used as an attack vector against the host or other VMs.
Red Hat Virtualization is also integrated with Red Hat
Satellite, Red Hat’s systems management solution. Red Hat
Virtualization standardizes infrastructure and virtual machine
guest provisioning through existing Red Hat Satellite 6
implementations. It also provides visibility into the host and
virtual machine errata details to ensure patch compliance across a
physical and virtual environment.
Availability
Red Hat Virtualization 4 is available as a standalone offering,
as an integrated offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and as
part of Red Hat Cloud Suite as part of a comprehensive solution.
Existing subscribers can upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization 4
through the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Gunnar Hellekson, director, product management, Linux and
Virtualization, Red Hat
“Our customers continue to rely on virtualization as a vital
part of their datacenter modernization efforts while also using it
to help bridge to new cloud-native and container-based workloads.
Red Hat Virtualization provides the economics, performance and
agility needed across both traditional and new infrastructure
initiatives.”
Gary Chen, research manager, Software Defined Compute, IDC
“While virtualization remains a key underpinning for the modern
datacenter, customer needs are rapidly evolving to demand more than
simply virtualizing traditional workloads. Modern virtualization
platforms need to address these standard scenarios while making way
for the emergence of virtualized containers and cloud computing,
key aspects that Red Hat Virtualization can address in an open,
extensible fashion.”
Paulo Dutra, Data Processing Center manager, Caja de Valores
"Red Hat Virtualization has enabled us to streamline our
operations and automate our disaster recovery process, reducing our
risk from manual intervention and helping to cut our system
recovery time in half. Without Red Hat Virtualization, we would not
have been capable of managing the number of servers we projected,
and we were able to add more virtual machines without additional
monetary investment."
Scott Farrand, vice president, Platform Software, HPE
“Customer needs are continuing to evolve and their
infrastructure has to keep pace. Red Hat’s enhancements provide
HPE’s customers better cost and performance with multiple ways to
deploy and use this technology in an open source environment.”
Thomas Wenninger, chief operating officer, IT-Services and head
of IT Infrastructure, Universität Salzburg
"Partnering with Red Hat to build our PLUS Web Services project
has enabled us to extend the benefits of a flexible, private cloud
platform to more than 20,000 of our students and employees and
consolidate 30 department sites and computer centers into a single
cloud infrastructure. Through a combination of Red Hat
Virtualization and Red Hat’s management solutions, we received
extensive support for the design and implementation of our new
private cloud. The open interfaces of Red Hat’s
Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions enabled our cloud solution to
maintain compatibility with major standards and prevent vendor
lock-in for the future.”
Bob Zuber, director of product management, Lenovo Data Center
Group
"Red Hat Virtualization 4 provides a robust set of enterprise
features that help us deliver maximized performance and a lower
total cost of ownership. And the cross-platform scalability for
both Linux and Windows workloads enables us to meet the diverse
needs of our customers. When coupled with the industry-leading
reliability of our servers, a Red Hat Virtualization 4 on Lenovo
solution adds maximum reliability to the performance and cost of
ownership benefits.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat Virtualization
4
- Learn more about the engineering
journey to Red Hat Virtualization 4
- Read how Caja de Valores is using Red
Hat Virtualization
- Read Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for
x86 Server Virtualization, where Red Hat Virtualization was named a
“Visionary”
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