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Red Hat Virtualization

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Developer(s)
  
Red Hat, Inc.

Platform
  
x64-compatible

Written in
  
Java, JSP

Type
  
Hypervisor

Stable release
  
4.0 / August 24, 2016; 6 months ago (2016-08-24)

Website
  
www.redhat.com/virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is an enterprise virtualization product produced by Red Hat, based on the KVM hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization uses the SPICE protocol and VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) with a RHEL-based centralized management server. It can acquire user and group information from an Active Directory service or FreeIPA Active Directory emulator. Some of the technologies of Red Hat Virtualization came from Red Hat's acquisition of Qumranet. Other parts derive from oVirt. Before version 4.0 product was named Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV). Certified by KVM community.

Versions

  • 2.2 – released June 22, 2010, at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.
  • 3.0 – announced January 18, 2012, which expanded ISV partnerships alongside new features such as management features, performance and scalability for both Linux and Windows workloads, a power user portal for self-service provisioning, RESTful API, and local storage.
  • 3.1 – released December 5, 2012.
  • 3.2 – released June 12, 2013.
  • 3.3 – released January 22, 2014.
  • 3.4 – released June 16, 2014. Among other improvements, it provides better integration with OpenStack and version 7 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • 3.5 – released February 11, 2015.
  • 3.6 – released March 9, 2016.
  • 4.0 – released August 24, 2016. Rebranding to Red Hat Virtualization.
  • References

    Red Hat Virtualization Wikipedia