Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Virtualization Product Portfolio Overview

VirtualDay '09, Zürich, 2009-03-12

Jan H WildeboerEMEA Evangelist

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AGENDA

Executive Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Product Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Roadmap

Product Packaging

Next Steps

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION (RHEV) ...

Major expansion of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolioBrand new virtualization management system (servers and desktops) in May '09Brand new standalone hypervisor based on KVM in May '09Integrated hypervisor (RHEL 5.4 KVM & Xen) in Sep '09

Goal: Hypervisor scalability/performance leadership, management parity by May '09. Significant value added differentiation in 2H09+

Red Hat - the open source virtualization leaderEnterprise robustness and OS experience over 10 yearsLarge IHV and ISV eco-system automatically enabled Significantly differentiated offering with KVM based technology (hybrid mode, SELinux security, scalability, performance)

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Executive Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Roadmap

Product Packaging

Next Steps

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION OVERVIEW

Hardware: Enterprise Data Center, Internal/External cloud

Virtual Data Center Foundation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat EnterpriseVirtualization Hypervisor

Platform Services

Bare metalapps

Linux &Windows

Virtual Servers

Windows &Linux Virtual

Desktops

Live Migration, High Availability, System Scheduler,Security, Messaging, Real-Time, Grid, Multi-site

Management

Configuration, Provisioning, Monitoring, Policy, Audit, Orchestration

Proven Red Hat platform and ecosystem

1,000+ certified hardware systems

3,000+ certified applications

Standards-based Open System

Leverage investment in existing infrastructure and operational practices

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCT PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers Robust server grade management system

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization HypervisorStandalone - Scalability, Performance, Security

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System with integrated hypervisor Scalability, Performance, Security

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for DesktopsIncludes SPICE adaptive remote rendering technologyMore details in a separate meeting

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER FOR SERVERS: SUMMARY

 Feature Description

High Availability  Restart guest VMs from failed hosts automatically on other hosts

Live Migration  Move running VM from 1 host to another. 0 downtime, 0 sessions lost.

System Scheduler  Continuously load balance VMs based on resource usage/policies

Power Saver  Concentrate VMs on fewer servers during off-peak hrs. Save power.

Maintenance Manager  0 downtime for VMs during planned maintenance window

Update /Boot Manager  Centrally update/patch hypervisors, maintain one image

Monitoring and Reporting For all objects in system – VM guests, hosts, networking, storage etc.

GoodNon existent

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER FOR SERVERS

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER FOR SERVERS: COMPARISON

 May 2009 featuresRed Hat

Enterprise Virtualization

VMware Virtual Center

Microsoft SC-VMM

High Availability      

Live Migration      

System Scheduler      

Power Saver      

Maintenance Manager      

Update/Boot Manager      

Monitoring and Reporting     

GoodNon existent

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION HYPERVISOR OVERVIEW

ScalabilityHost Scalability – theoretically unlimited. Tested 256 cores, 1 TB RAMGuest Scalability – 16vCPU, 64 GB RAM

Industry Standards VirtIO network and block drivers Libvirt/CIM management interface

Storage and networking FC, iSCSI, NAS/NFSHost/guest networking – multiple VLANs

Advanced Features Memory Page sharing, swapping etc. VM-Secure (SELinux)

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COMPARISON OF HYPERVISOR FEATURES

  Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMware ESX Microsoft Hyper-V

Support for Windows guests

   

Support for Linux guests

   

Hypervisor scalability

   

Hypervisor performance

   

Memory page-sharing

   

Advanced features (NUMA, Power Mgmt. etc.)

   

GoodNon existent

Windows 2000, 2003, 2008Windows 2000, 2003, 2008Windows 2000, 2003, 2008

RHEL 3-5 RHEL 2.1-5SLES 8-10

SLES 9-10, RHEL 5.2, 5.3

256 cores, 1TB RAM 32 cores, 256 GB RAM 16 cores, 1TB RAM

With PV drivers With PV drivers With PV drivers

Yes Yes No

Yes. Supported in Linux Limited functionalityNo

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AGENDA

Executive Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Roadmap

Product Packaging

Next Steps

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER FOR SERVERS ROADMAP

MAY 2009 H2 2009

ADVANCED VIRT MANAGEMENT DATA CENTER SECURITY

• Image Mgmt.

• High Availability

• Live Migration

• System Scheduler

• Power Saver

• Maintenance Manager

• Monitoring and Reporting

• VM-PM Scheduler (Hybrid model), Physical and Virtual system scheduler

• VM Secure: Host Firewall

• VM Secure: Guest Firewall

• VM Secure: SELinux

• VM Secure: SELinux Profiler

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION: HYPERVISOR ROADMAP

MAY 2009 H2 2009

• Standalone, small footprint enterprise hypervisor (64MB)

•Host scalability: 256 cores, 1TB RAM

•Guest scalability 16vCPU, 64 GB RAM

•Intel/AMD EPT/RVI support

•High Performance

•SELinux

• RHEL5 KVM

• RHEL5 Xen

•VT-D support (Guest PCI Pass-through)

•SR-IOV (IO perf. improvements)

•VT-C (VMDq) – n/w perf. enhancement

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION VM-PM SCHEDULER (HYBRID MODE)

Database or other applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers during production hours

When capacity is available, VMs can be migrated to the same server

Allows higher capital efficiency in the data center

Positive feedback from finance, oil & gas, media & entertainment etc.

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATIONVM-SECURE™

Define security policies for each virtual machine - SE-Linux

Specify firewall rules for host and per guest - Block specific traffic in or out of virtual machine

Specify which virtual networks or storage networks a guest may access

Define which physical and logical resources a guest may access

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AGENDA

Executive Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Roadmap

Product Packaging

Next Steps

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