4. RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION
Automated Workload
Management
Reduced
Infrastructure Cost
Unmatched
Performance
Centralized Management
of the KVM Hypervisor
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5. ENTERPRISE IT OBJECTIVES
Lower Virtual
Infrastructure cost...
Reduce dependence on a single
virtualization provider
Be efficient, secure,
and compliant...
Do more with less, gain high
infrastructure performance, be
confident that environment is
secure and compliant
Be more agile…
Faster time to market,
easier integration with
future infrastructure
technologies
(containers, SDN, SDS)
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6. ELA Expiration
Software ELAs are
coming up for
renegotiation, often tied to
hardware lifecycle
Hardware Lifecycle
Increased hardware
purchase in 2016 due to Intel
lifecycle
Market
Consolidation
The market (Customers and
OEMs) is apprehensive about
upcoming market consolidation
MARKET CONDITIONS
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7. RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION STRATEGY
Product
Enterprise ready open
Virtualization platform
Community
Invest development and
thought leadership into
latest technologies
Solutions
Together with ISVs,
Partners, and other Red
Hat products
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10. WHAT’S NEW IN RHV 4.0
Enhanced Management and
Automation
Infrastructure Modernization
Advanced Network Functionality
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11. INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION
RHV-M Support for
RHEL 7.2
Using the latest technologies
and capabilities of the RHEL
platform
Red Hat
Virtualization Host
Improved lightweight
hypervisor host that
maximizes user flexibility
and easy administration
RHEL Atomic Host -
Guest Support
Provide insight into containers
that are running within the
virtual environment
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13. ENHANCED MANAGEMENT AND
AUTOMATION
Simplified System
Dashboards
Monitoring dashboards that highlight
what admins should pay attention to
immediately while providing a more
user friendly product experience
Disk Image Uploading
Integrated uploading of existing disk
images to run as virtual machines
Improved Live Migration
Policies
Adjustment of live migration policies
to improve performance of
operations from minutes to seconds
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15. ADVANCED NETWORK FUNCTIONALITY
External Network API
Integration
Working with partners to provide a
common SDN framework for network
configuration and dataplane control
RH OSP Neutron OVS -
Full Support
Provide a common SDN solution
across your virtual and private cloud
infrastructure based on OVS
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17. Centralized Operational Management of Hybrid Cloud
Prepare for modernization efforts within IT
Infrastructure
RHV Provider as Tier-1 Citizen
Elements of UI will transition to ManageIQ Framework
Initial Focus on Lab Management
IMPROVED PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS
Bare Metal Host Provisioning
Guest VM Provisioning
Host Infrastructure Updates
Display of Host and Guest Errata Updates
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18. PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS
Provisioning
Initial deployment of
infrastructure and workloads
across multiple technologies
Configuration
Optimal configuration for
infrastructure and running
workloads
Compliance
Maintain ongoing patch and
configuration compliance
throughout workload lifecycle
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20. vGPU Investments Upstream with NVIDIA (GRID) and Intel (GVT-G)
Focus on high-powered technical workstations conducive to running Linux.
Built for:
• Animation
• Oil and Gas
• Sciences/Education
• Manufacturing/Engineering
VIRTUAL TECHNICAL WORKSTATION *
* Subject to Change20
21. Built and tested for ROBO (remote officebranch office).
Shared Compute (RHEV) and Storage (Gluster) on single node
Storage Configuration and Scheduling Providing:
• Data Locality
• Fault Tolerance
HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE *
* Subject to Change21
22. Real Time Hypervisor for Decreased CPU Scheduling Latency
Real Time Guest OS Kernel for Decreased Virtual CPU Operations
Combined with existing SR-IOV capabilities for Low Latency Networking
Processing and Increased Throughput
LOW-LATENCY COMPUTING *
* Subject to Change22