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Product Information

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3 is a complete virtualisation management solution available for both server and desktop virtualisation. RHEV for Servers provides end-to-end server virtualisation with near-bare-metal performance. Virtualise even the most demanding applications and take advantage of easy manageability, enterprise-level security and lower total cost of ownership. RHEV for Desktops provides desktop operating system virtualisation and enables users to remotely access their individual desktops from nearly any client device - including thin clients or repurposed PCs.

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Benefits

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

Features a bare-metal, high-performance and secure hypervisor based on enterprise-hardened RHEL kernel with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology. The image-based small-footprint hypervisor has support for VLAN, network bonding and wide-range of network devices including 10 GB interface. It supports all 64-bit x86 server platforms that are certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (requires Intel-VT or AMD-V hardware virtualisation extensions). It supports all storage systems certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

Features a centralised management system with a search driven GUI supporting up to 100s of hosts and 1000s of virtual machines. It is built on RHEL 6 and JBoss EAP for powerful performance and scalability.

Fully featured enterprise management

Powerful features include live migration, policy-based workload balancing, high availability, power saving, cluster maintenance, image management, templating, thin-provisioning, event monitoring and more.

Leading performance and scalability

Hosts support up to 160 cores and 2 TB of RAM. Guests support up to 64 vCPUs and 512 GB of RAM. Clusters support up to 200 hosts.

Support for Windows and Linux virtual machines

Supports a range of Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. See the system requirements for specific details.

Advanced SELinux kernel-based security

The highest level of kernel-based security provides immediate intrusion detection and isolation for virtual machines and hosts with Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and sVirt protection.

Automation and customisation

A RESTful API allows all aspects of RHEV to be automated, managed and configured programmatically. A Python-based command line interface provides scripting and automation capabilities. A hooks mechanism allows administrators to define scripts to modify virtual machine definitions or run system commands.

Self-service user portal

Enable end-users to self-provision virtual machines, define templates and administer their own environments.

Reporting and monitoring

Detailed historical reporting capabilities are included for monitoring historical usage, trending, quality of service etc. Over 25 prebuilt reports and dashboards are included.

Editions

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers includes the RHEV Manager management system and the RHEV Hypervisor. It supports server operating systems as virtual guests.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is available as an add-on and provides support for desktop operating systems as virtual guests and support for desktop management functionality. Additional features include:

• RHEV User Portal for connecting RHEV for Desktop users to their virtual machines
• SPICE open source remote rendering protocol for presentation of the desktop environment to supported thin clients and PCs
• Enhanced network performance for desktop virtualisation with new dynamic and variable compression algorithms for higher latency, lower bandwidth WAN environments
• Enhanced Linux desktop support for auto-resizing, guest agent reporting and single sign-on (RHEL 6 desktop guests)
• Enhancements to user experience with higher supported screen resolutions and dynamic copy-and-paste
• Desktop pooling for deployment of multiple desktop VMs from templates
• SmartCard CAC support for two-factor authentication.

System Req.

Management server

Minimum

• Dual-core Intel 64 or AMD64 CPU
• 4 GB RAM (available, not including OS)
• 25 GB writeable disk space
• 1 NIC with bandwidth > 1 Gbps
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64 subscription (not included).

Recommended

• Quad-core or multiple dual-core Intel 64 or AMD64 CPU
• 16 GB RAM
• 50 GB writeable disk space
• 1 NIC with bandwidth > 1 Gbps
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64 subscription (not included).

Host servers (hypervisors)

Minimum

• Dual-core Intel 64 or AMD64 CPU
• Intel VT or AMD-V extensions enabled in BIOS
• 10 GB RAM
• 12 GB internal storage
• 1 NIC with bandwidth > 1 Gbps
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, included with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Recommended

• Quad-core or multiple dual-core Intel 64 or AMD64 CPU
• Intel VT or AMD-V extensions enabled in BIOS
• 10 GB RAM plus 1 GB per VM
• 12 GB + internal storage
• Multiple NICs with bandwidth > 1 Gbps
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64 subscription as a hypervisor (purchased separately).

Administrator console

• Microsoft Windows XP (i386), Windows 7 (i386, AMD64, and Intel 64), or Windows 2008/2008R2(i386, AMD64, and Intel 64)
• Internet Explorer 7 or higher
• .NET Framework 4.

User portal

• Client - RHEL 5.5/6.0, Windows XP, Windows XPe, Windows 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows 2008/R2, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Certified Linux-based thin clients
• Browser - Internet Explorer 7 and higher on Windows, with the SPICE ActiveX control installed or Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and higher on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with the SPICE plug-in installed.