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Red Hat Server Virtualization

There is little doubt that server virtualization is one of the IT success stories of recent times. Even so, the cost of virtualization software has put many organisations off deploying it. Red Hat has addressed this with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization "RHEV".

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 2.2 Features

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers is a feature-rich server virtualization management system that competes with other leading virtualization platforms, key features include:

Live migration: Allows virtual machines to be moved from one host to another while running with no affect on performance.
New! Prioritized High availability: Critical VMs restart automatically on a new host when hardware fails. New priority feature allows you to rank VMs in case not all highly available VMs can be restarted on remaining hardware, ensuring your mission-critical applications always have priority.
Maintenance manager: Allows hosts to be upgraded and maintained while virtual machines are running.
Image manager: Enables thin provisioning of disk storage and use of templates to quickly build new virtual machines from standard configurations.
Power saver: Allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to consolidate virtual machines on a smaller number of hosts during non-peak hours and power down unneeded hosts.
System scheduler: Allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to migrate virtual machines across multiple hosts to balance workloads.
New! V2V Conversion Tools: Import Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests from Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Xen or VMWare. Additional converters coming soon.
New! Backup and Restore Support: Support from leading third-party backup vendors for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VM backup using agents in the VM.
New! Reporting Engine: Documented database schema and sample reports for extracting information from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
New! Search Driven User Interface with tagging: Allows you to search both on virtual machine and host characteristics as well as arbitrary tags you can assign.
Consistent Management Environment for Server and Desktop

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is fully supported by Microsoft and includes support for most Windows and Linux server versions. It includes many of the features of proprietary virtualization platforms including clustering and live migration, but at a lower price.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based on KVM (Kernel Virtualization) technology that is part of the Linux kernel. This means that any hardware or software that is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, will run on RHEV without modification.