Red Hat launches ‘Enterprise Virtualization 3.5’

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5, enabling organisations to deploy an IT infrastructure that services traditional virtualisation workloads while creating an enterprise-grade foundation for cloud infrastructure.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 delivers standardised services for mission critical workloads, and offers IT organisations greater visibility into provisioning, configuring and monitoring of their virtualisation infrastructure, all based on open standards – the Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 extends this leadership with support for four terabytes (4 TB) of memory per host, 4 TB of vRAM, and 160 vCPUs per virtual machine.

Notable new features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 include:

• Lifecycle management and provisioning of bare-metal hosts via integration with Red Hat Satellite
• Compute resource optimisation through advanced real-time analytics with oVirt Optimiser integration. This enables users to identify the balance of resource allocation that best meets their needs while provisioning new virtual machines
• Workload performance and scalability provided through non-uniform memory access (NUMA) support, which is extended to Host NUMA, Guest Pinning and Virtual NUMA. This enables customers to deploy highly scalable workloads with improved performance and minimises resource overload related to physical memory access times
• Enhanced disaster recovery via improved storage domain handling, providing support for migrating storage domains between different data centres supported by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, enabling partner technologies to deliver site recovery capabilities

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also serves as an ideal foundation both traditional virtualization and highly flexible cloud-enabled workloads built on OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 includes features that enhance this foundation for cloud-enabled workloads:

• Integration and shared common services with OpenStack Image Service (Glance) and OpenStack Networking (Neutron), available as a Tech Preview, enabling administrators to break down silos and to deploy resources once across the infrastructure
• Instance types, unifying the process of provisioning virtual machines for both virtual and cloud-enabled workloads.

Availability

• As a standalone offering – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 – including Hypervisor and Manager for virtualised enterprise workloads for supported guest operating systems
• As an integrated offering called Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization, aimed at customers looking to maximise the benefits of their virtualised infrastructure with Linux workloads. This offering combines the innovation, performance, scalability, reliability and security features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the advanced virtualization management capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• Via Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive solution that supports organisations on their journey from traditional data centre virtualisation to OpenStack-powered clouds. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a single subscription offering that includes Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

“As more enterprises look to reap the benefits of bimodal IT in their virtualised and cloud-based environments, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers a key component of an infrastructure ready to accommodate traditional enterprise virtualisation while building a foundation for cloud enabled workloads,” said Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat.