Cloudonomics Journal

Virtualization Magazine

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, Red Hat’s preferred way of configuring, provisioning, managing and organizing virtualized Linux and Windows servers and clouds in beta since June, went GA Tuesday.

The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualization and cloud environments.” It didn’t say what exactly.

The widgetry includes a standalone, lightweight, secure, high-performance KVM hypervisor designed to host Linux and Windows virtual servers and desktops whose memory-sharing technology reportedly permits more efficient guest consolidation and enterprise features such as live migration.

It’s supposed to reduce the cost, complexity and time required to manage large-scale virtualization deployments. It can move applications and hardware platforms from bare metal computing to virtualized computing to cloud computing while maintaining certifications.

Red Hat’s positive the widgetry, especially its management components, “will allow customers to use virtualization pervasively across their entire computing infrastructure.”

The code fetched testimonials from all the usual suspects, even Cisco, which is way under the covers with VMware.

Meanwhile, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is still in private beta and won’t be out until early next year.