Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers is an end-to-end virtualisation solution that is designed to enable pervasive datacenter virtualisation, and significantly enhance capital and operational efficiency.

Enterprise Virtualisation

Learn how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation can help you virtualise your critical enterprise server workloads and unbeatable performance, unbreakable security, and the lowest cost in class.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation builds upon the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform that is trusted by millions of organisations around the world for mission-critical workloads. It provides:

• Record-breaking performance and scalability
• Industry-leading security
• Widest ecosystem of hardware and enterprise ISVs
• Lowest total cost of ownership in its class

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is the ideal platform on which to build an internal or private cloud of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windowa virtual machines.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers consists of the following components:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Manager for Servers: A feature-rich server virtualisation management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Hypervisor: A modern hypervisor based on Kernal-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation technology, which can be deployed either as the standalone bare metal hypervisor (included), or as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later (purchased separately) installed as a hypervisor host and managed through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Manager for Servers.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation breaks down virtualisation barriers

Virtualisation currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads, according to Gartner reports. This slow adoption is due to barriers to virtualisation not currently addressed by existing virtualisation products.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation helps your organisation meet the challenges of virtualisation:

• Performance and scalability: Providing near and better than bare metal performance and industry-leading scalability for enterprise workloads.
• Security: Leveraging SELinux and the hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernal to provide a secure virtualisation infrastructure.
• Ecosystem: Supporting the leading enterprise hardware, operating systems, and applications certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Cost: Bringing unbeatable value in enterprise virtualisation - by subscription.