RedHat releases stand-alone hypervisor and management tools

RedHat released a standalone version of hypervisor and a series of management tools this week. After VMware and Microsoft, RedHat has become another vendor that provides virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure. RedHat has begun to supply RedHatEnterpriseVirtualizationforServers, which includes a single-host hypervisor and a management platform. RedHatEnterpriseVirtualizationhypervi

Red Hat released a standalone version of hypervisor and a series of management tools this week. After VMware and Microsoft, it has become another vendor that provides virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure.

Red Hat has begun supplying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization alization for Servers, including a single-host hypervisor and a management platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor supports Linux and Windows virtual servers and desktops. This hypervisor is based on the Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 kernel with KVM.

"It integrates all the enterprise features of RHEL 5," said Navin Thadani, head of virtualization business at Red Hat ." He also said that its performance can catch up with bare metal configuration.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization alization hypervisor can be expanded to 96 kernels and 1 tb ram at the host level, and 16 virtual CPUs and 64 gb ram at the client level. In addition, it also supports real-time migration, power management, multi-part I/O and Memory Page sharing.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers is another major component of the suite. It is a centralized server virtualization Management System with High Availability tools, real-time migration, Server Load balancer, image management for Linux and Windows devices. It also includes a series of centralized monitoring tools.

Red Hat also said that the desktop version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is currently in beta testing, providing a complete VDI environment that supports SPICE remote rendering technology.

These tools were obtained last year by Red Hat for the acquisition of Qumranet for $0.107 billion. Red Hat said in September this year that the APIs of these tools can be integrated into the virtualization API Libvirt used by Red Hat. When RHEL 6 was released, Red Hat officially said the performance of these tools was comparable to that of the VMware Infrastructure management platform, and called on partners to add feature features to the basic platform.

In addition, these tools can also be used to manage public clouds, connect to internal networks, and host platforms.