Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualisation Platform For Heterogeneous Servers

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualisation, with an end-to-end solution combining a stand-alone hypervisor and virtualisation management.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers entered a worldwide beta in June 2009. Extensive collaboration with enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualisation and cloud environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers includes the following components:

* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

A stand-alone, lightweight hypervisor designed to host Linux and Microsoft Windows virtual servers and desktops. It provides a virtualisation foundation for cloud deployments and other highly dynamic IT environments. Using KVM technology, the hypervisor provides high performance and security coupled with memory sharing technology, which permits more efficient guest consolidation, and enterprise features such as live migration.

* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers

A platform for configuring, provisioning, managing and organising virtualised Linux and Microsoft Windows servers. It is designed for customers, who seek to reduce the cost, complexity and time required to manage large-scale virtualisation deployments. With a rich set of management capabilities and search and grouping features, Virtualization Manager equips customers with the ability to efficiently control a virtualised infrastructure.