Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization forward with new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is an end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for enterprise users. RHEV's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor holds 19 of the 27 published SPECvirt_sc2010 (www.spec.org) performance benchmarks, including the best 2-socket and 4-socket scores, and the only published 8-socket scores – most of which are based on IBM hardware.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 incorporates key new features, including increased scalability of guest virtual machines, an improved web administration portal, updated reporting dashboard, new networking capabilities, and enhanced disk storage. Additionally, the incorporation of a technology preview of storage live migration adds the flexibility to migrate virtual machine disk files between storage domains without having to power down the virtual machine. RHEV also maintains common ABI compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, enabling optimized flexibility and performance when combining the two platforms.
A key addition to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is integration with Red Hat Storage, Red Hat’s scale-out, open source storage software solution for the management of data, including file and object, structured and unstructured. In addition to providing these essential building blocks for open hybrid clouds, this integration also offers enterprises reduced operational costs, expanded portability, choice of infrastructure, flexibility, scalability, availability, and the power of community-driven innovation with the contributions of the open source oVirt and Gluster projects.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is globally available to subscribing Red Hat customers today. Additionally, a fully supported, 60-day trial is also available here.
For more information on the release of RHEV 3.1, visit the “Optimizing IT” on-demand virtual event to hear presentations from Red Hat executives, partners, and product teams here.