Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, bringing enhancements for traditional
virtualization infrastructure, guest support for the newly released Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as well as advanced OpenStack support across
compute, storage and networking in tech preview.
This newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables
organizations to scale their traditional virtualization workloads to an
enterprise-scale level, while providing an on-ramp to deploy cloud
enabled workloads based on OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
has enabled global enterprise customers
to streamline and optimize their traditional virtualization
infrastructure while building a foundation for private cloud
capabilities. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, Red Hat is
delivering virtualization enterprise features that enable organizations
to build highly available and scalable IT infrastructures including:
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Upgraded affinity/anti-affinity groups, enabling
groups of virtual machines to run together on a single host or
independently across alternative hosts to facilitate setting service
levels for load-balanced applications;
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Template versioning, allowing users to easily update
templates for minor revisions and to use a parent template when
provisioning a new virtual machine, making it ideal for VM pools. Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 also offers full support for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 and earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
guests;
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Enhanced networking through a multi-host network configuration,
providing a simple mechanism to update and synchronize network
configurations across a large number of hosts. This upgraded
configuration also simplifies provisioning and management of a large
number of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) within an environment;
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New Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notification service
within the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 infrastructure,
enabling users to monitor the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager
with preferred third party monitoring tools; and
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Mixed storage domains, enabling shared, different
protocol types to exist within the same datacenter, including Internet
Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI); Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP);
Network File System (NFS); Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
and Gluster.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 also includes a broad suite of
features to help future-proof a traditional virtual infrastructure, as
more advanced virtualization users are adopting cloud-based workloads
and exploring OpenStack deployments. As more enterprises embrace the
cloud to bring agility to their environments, they are turning to
OpenStack to build open and scalable private clouds with streamlined
management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 offers
advanced tech previews of core OpenStack features, enabling
organizations to eliminate silos and facilitate the journey to the
private cloud, including:
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OpenStack Image Service (Glance) integration enhancements, enabling users to import a Glance image as a template to use in provisioning a new virtual machine; and
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OpenStack Networking (Neutron) integration enhancements, extending beyond regular Neutron capabilities by enabling users to create and delete networks on an external Neutron provider.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization
For enterprises seeking to optimize their virtualized infrastructure for Linux workloads while reducing cost, Red Hat offers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization
to further extend the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
This offering combines the performance, scalability and security
featuresof Red Hat Enterprise Linux with advanced virtualization
management capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for
enterprises looking to get the most out of their deployments.