 "Red Hat Delivers First Beta for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1")
Red Hat has delivered a peek into the future of open source virtualisation with the availability of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 – the platform is expected to be generally available later this year. This is the first in a series of beta releases that will allow current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers to get access to up-and-coming features for the platform to provide feedback to Red Hat on the technologies and determine which technologies are good fits for their own infrastructure deployments. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers are able to access the beta via Red Hat Network.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a comprehensive virtualisation platform that delivers an open virtualisation hypervisor with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and corresponding management tools for both server and desktop virtualisation deployments. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 was delivered to the market in January 2012, bringing leading features, performance, scalability and cost advantages to customers. The platform offers a strategic open virtualisation alternative in comparison to competitive proprietary offerings.
With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, Red Hat brings its virtualisation platform a step forward with many new features and updates available to current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers. New features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 are planned over several betas in the series – key highlights of coming features include improved scalability, quotas, extending the existing self-service capabilities, browser independent Web Admin portal, storage live migration
It also features new P2V tools and capabilities, virtual machine storage features and support for new x86 chipsets and for storing virtual machine images on Red Hat Storage.
Some more features include scriptability enhancements, support for Red Hat Directory Server and IBM Tivoli Directory Server, in addition to Red Hat Identity Management and Microsoft Active Directory and new POSIX filesystem support.