Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 Introduced by Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3, featuring expanded datacenter virtualization and management along with seamless workload scaling and integration.
Designed to deliver traditional datacenter virtualization while providing an on-ramp to OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables a wide variety of enterprises to deploy traditional and elastic workloads on their existing infrastructure without impacting service levels, performance or scalability. The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables customers to deploy a common set of OpenStack services (Compute, Storage and Networking) that can be used by their datacenter virtualization platform through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, as well as their private cloud through Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. With a cohesive environment between the private cloud and the datacenter, a variety of enterprises may now deploy traditional and elastic workloads without having to duplicate infrastructure layers.
The newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization includes several enhanced infrastructure, networking and storage features to enhance developer portability across a heterogeneous cloud environment, including:
- A new self-hosted engine, allowing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager to be deployed as a virtual machine on the host, reducing hardware requirements;
- Back-up and restore API integration, now including a new backup infrastructure providing a rich API set for third party software vendors to backup and restore their virtual machines; and
- Support for OpenStack Glance and OpenStack Neutron, enabling users to store their virtual machine templates and enable advanced networking configurations with a shared infrastructure between private clouds and datacenter virtualization.
