BENEFITS AND FEATURES REDHAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

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Capability Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers gives you near-bare-metal and better-thanbare-metal performance, and industry-leading scalability for enterprise workloads. Virtualize even the most demanding application workloads with features like: Record-setting results on the industry-standard virtualization benchmark SPECvirt_sc20101, including the highest overall performance and the highest number of performant VMs on a single server. Support for the latest Intel and AMD server chipsets for superior consolidation and VM performance. Up to between 95% and 140% performance relative to bare metal for real-world enterprise workloads like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Exchange. More than 1 million messages per second on a single server with low latency. Consolidation ratios of more than 400 VMs with enterprise workloads running on a single server.

Expalanation Comparison based on benchmark addressing performance evaluation of datacenter servers used in virtualized server consolidation at www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/ as of 9 May, 2012. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECvirt_sc are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

1. High performance and scalability

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Easy manageability

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is a centralized management system that lets system administrators view and manage virtual machines and images, providing a graphical user interface to administer the physical and logical resources. The management console provides enterprise capabilities, including: High availability Live migration Live snapshots Storage live migration

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Storage management Network management System scheduler

Unmatched enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers uses SELinux with sVirt and the hardened security Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel to provide a secure virtualization infrastructure. Unparalleled ecosystem for virtualized hardware and software The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ISV program is a vibrant ecosystem of partners offering solutions in complementary areas, like backup and recovery, workflow automation, and capacity planning.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers also supports the leading enterprise hardware, operating systems, and applications certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)-certified to support current supported versions of Windows operating systems and Microsoft server applications. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers offers a lower total cost of ownership compared to other virtualization solutions. So you can deploy more virtualized servers today and, with a quicker return on investment (ROI), install your next virtualization project sooner. A bare-metal, high-performance and secure hypervisor based on enterprisehardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology Image-based small-footprint hypervisor with minimized security footprint Support for VLAN, network bonding, and wide range of network devices including 10GB interface Supports all 64 bit x86 server platforms that are certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Requires Intel-VT or AMD-V hardware virtualization extensions). Supports all storage systems certified on

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Lower TCO

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

 5. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 6. Fully featured enterprise management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux A centralized management system with a search driven graphical interface supporting up to 100s of hosts and 1000s of virtual machines (Built on RHEL 6 and JBoss EAP for superior performance and scalability) Live migration, storage live migration, policy-based workload balancing, high availability, live snapshots, power saving, cluster maintenance, image management, templating, thinprovisioning, event monitoring, and more Hosts support up to 160 cores and 2 TB of RAM. Guests support up to 160vCPUs and 2 TB of RAM; Clusters support up to 200 hosts ndustry leading SPECvirt_SC2010 results Servers - Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL 3, 4, 5, and 6; 32 and 64 bit; Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2; 32 and 64 bit; SVVP and WHQL certified Desktops - Red Hat Enterprise Desktop 5 and 6, 32 and 64 bit; Windows XP 32 bit: Windows 7 32 and 64 bit Highest level of kernel-based security capability for immediate intrusion detection and isolation for virtual machines and hosts with Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and sVirt protection RESTful API allows all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to be automated, managed, and configured programmatically A Python-based command line interface allows for scripting and automation Hooks mechanism allows administrators to define scripts to modify virtual machine definitions or run system commands

7. Industry leading performance and scalability 8. Support for both Windows and Linux virtual machines 9. Advanced SELinux kernelbased security 10. Automation and customization

11. Self Service User Portal

Enables end users to self provision virtual machines, define templates, and administer their own environments Administrators can define per-user quotas for disk space, CPU usage and memory Detailed historical reporting capabilities, based on Jasper reports, are integrated into base product to monitor historical usage, trending, quality of service. Over 25 prebuilt reports and dashboards included Supported storage includes iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, local storage, Red Hat Storage and other POSIX compliant filesystems Supported features include storage live migration, live snapshots, shared disks, floating disks, VM disk hotplug/unplug, direct LUN attach to VM The administration and user portal supports English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese RHEV-Manager: Recommended 1-2 quad core x86_64 processors, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, 1 Gbps Ethernet NIC RHEV-Hypervisors: 1 CPU with Intel 64 or AMD64 CPU extensions, and AMD-VTM or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions. 2 GB RAM. 10 GB local disk storage. one 1 GB Ethernet NIC Administrative console: Internet Explorer 8 and higher on Windows or Mozilla Firefox 10 and higher on Red Hat Enterprise Linux User portal: Internet Explorer 8 and higher on Windows, with the SPICE ActiveX control installed or Mozilla Firefox 10 and higher on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with the SPICE plugin installed (provided by the spice-xpi package)

12. Reporting and monitoring 13. Storage

14. Internationalization 15. System Requirements

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