Redhat enters the virtualization market!
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RedHat has now entered the virtualization market with its own stand alone hypervisor and a new virtualization management platform, oVirt. The new technology offerings have been built out of the Red Hat sponsored oVirt open source project.
Red Hat’s oVirt management platform is a cross-platform management solution for customers to centrally manage their entire virtual infrastructure, crossing hypervisor and vendor boundaries.
oVirt uses Red Hat’s open source libvirt management framework that provides hypervisor-agnostic management interfacing, allowing the same tools to manage multiple different hypervisors. Current support in libvirt include six hypervisors
- Xen
- KVM
- QEMU
- OpenVZ
- Linux Containers (LVX)
- Solaris LDoms
libvirt is open source and can be adopted by virtualization players allowing a common management interface for different vendor virtualization solutions.
The oVirt hypervisor is based on the Linux kernel’s native virtualization provided by KVM and provides full virtualization of underlying hardware components, scalability to large systems, live migration and high availability capabilities.
The advantages of using linux as the starting point is that unlike other embedded solutions that have limited hardware support since they need to write all the device drivers, the oVirt hypervisor inherits all the hardware support of Linux.
SOURCE: RedHat
