Red Hat Ehanced Desktop Virtualisation

1. RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION
Andrew Cathrow
Sr. Manager, Product Management
July 26th 2012

2. VIRTUALIZATION DIVERSIFICATION
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Server virtualization is a mature
technology – competition,
innovation, choice...

Over 70% of customers surveyed
are either already deploying a
dual virtualization vendor strategy,
or have concrete plans to do so
A MAJORITY OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE LOOKING FOR
ALTERNATIVES TO VMWARE

3. WHAT IS RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION?
RHEV Manager
RHEV APIs and
management engine
and ALL features
RHEV RHEV RHEV
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

4. OR IF YOU WILL...
VMWARE RHEV
vCenter Server RHEV-M
Enterprise Plus features
Enterprise features
Standard features RHEV APIs and
management engine
vSphere APIs and and ALL features
management engine
ESXi RHEV-H

5. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV MANAGER FEATURES
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High Availability
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Live Migration
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Load Balancing (DRS)
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Power Saver (DPM)
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Templates, thin
provisioning, snapshots
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Centralized storage and
networking management
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V2V

Power User Portal

Reporting Engine

6. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
HYPERVISOR
 Standalone hypervisor
 Small footprint
 Customized 'spin' of RHEL + KVM
 'Just enough' RHEL to run virtual
machines
 Security hardened image
 Runs on all RHEL hardware
 with Intel VT/AMD-V CPUs
 Easy to install, configure and upgrade
 PXE boot, USB boot, CD or Hard
drive

7. INDUSTRY LEADING VIRTUALIZATION
PERFORMANCE ON SPECVIRT_SC2010
As of May 30, 2012, RHEV claims top 7 results and the only 8 socket server scores. SPEC® and the benchmark
name SPECvirt® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.

8. INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP: SIGNIFICANT COST
ADVANTAGE
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10 physical hosts (2x4HT, 64GB) 
10 physical hosts (2x8HT, 256GB)
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Same density across both 
Same density across both
RHEV COSTS 1/7th VS. VMWARE AND 1/3rd OVER 3 YEARS.
SCALE UP COST ADVANTAGE EVEN MORE

9. COST FOR PERFORMANCE OVER 3 YEARS
$40 
vSphere5 costs average
R H E V $ / S P E C v i r t _ s c 2 0 10 $16.85/SPECvirt_sc2010
$35
v S p h e r e 4 $ / S P E C v i r t _ s c 2 0 10 over three years (6.5X
v S p h e r e 5 $ / S P E C v i r t _ s c 2 0 10 RHEV cost)
$30

Note much higher
$25 variability due to vRAM
licensing
$20

vSphere4 costs average of
$ 15 $6.97/SPECvirt_sc2010
over three years (2.7X
$ 10 RHEV cost)
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RHEV costs average of
$5
$2.57/SPECvirt_sc2010
$0 2 SOCK ETS 4 SOCK ETS 8 SOCK ETS
over three years

10. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
ISV PARTNERS

Integrated through
the RHEV API
Operations
Monitoring
Security

Certified by Red Hat
Capacity & to work with RHEV
Performance
Management Backup &
Disaster

Free trials available
Recovery via the RHEV
Capacity
Planning & Marketplace
P2V, V2V
Application
VDI
Delivery 
Visit our ISV
partners at the
Partner Pavillion
and RHEV
Campgrounds
http://marketplace.redhat.com

11. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 2.2 ARCHITECTURE

12. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.0 ARCHITECTURE

13. OPEN VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT

14. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1 - HIGHLIGHTS
RHEV 3.1 – December 2012
Web Admin - Full HTML based Web Admin (replaces Windows Admin UI)
Improved - 160 Virtual CPUs per VM
Scalability - 2 TB Virtual RAM per VM
P2V - Quickly migrate physical machines to virtual machines
Quotas - Quotas for storage, CPU and memory
Live Snapshots - Live snapshots of Virtual Machine
Storage Migration - Live migration of virtual machine disk between storage domains
Hotplug Disk - Hot plug/unplug virtual machine disk image
Disk Management - New UI for managing internal and external (direct lun) disks
Hot plug NIC - Hot plug/unplug virtual machine's network interface
Gluster Integration - Manage Gluster from within RHEV Manager

15. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Platform Infrastructure
OpenJDK - Run on 100% open source infrastructure
- No requirement for proprietary Oracle JRE
JBoss EAP 6 - Reduced in-memory footprint
- Reduced startup time
- Improved performance and scalability
Directory Servers - Support for two new directory servers
- Red Hat Directory Server
- IBM Tivoli Directory Server
Jasper 4.7 - Move to the latest JasperSoft reporting engine

16. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Platform Infrastructure
Guest Scalability - 160 Virtual CPUs per VM
- 2 TB Virtual RAM per VM
New CPU Support - New Intel Core i3, i5, i7 (code named “Sandy Bridge”)
- New AMD family 15h processors (code named “Bulldozer”)
P2V - Quickly migrate Physical machine to Virtual
Quotas - Quotas for storage, CPU and memory

17. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
User Interface
Web Admin - Full support for Web Admin
- Remove .NET Windows Admin Portal

18. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
User Interface
Internationalization - Localization for UI
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified
Chinese
- Spanish
- Extensible framework
for new languages

19. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
User Interface
Reports - Integrate Reports / Dashboard into web admin portal
Integration - Single Signon between Admin portal and Jasper Reports

20. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
User Interface
Task Manager - Interface to view and manage on-going tasks

21. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Integration & API
Linux CLI - New CLI based on upstream command line tool
- Allows all RHEV operations to be run from command line

22. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Integration & API
Python SDK - Python SDK for developers

23. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Integration & API
JSON - Support for JavaScript Object Notation in addition to XML
API Session - Session support for API connections
User Level API - Support for non-admin user access to the API

24. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Networking
Hot plug/unplug - Hot plug/unplug virtual machine's network interface

25. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Hotplug Disk - Hot plug/unplug virtual machine disk image
Disk Management - New UI for managing internal and external (direct lun) disks

26. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Direct LUN - UI support for configuring direct LUN access for virtual machine

27. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Shared Disk - Allow VM disk to be shared e.g., Shared disk for database
Multiple Storage - Allow VM to use disks from multiple storage domains
Domains (Tiered storage)
Live Snapshots - Live snapshots of Virtual Machine
- Clone VM from snapshot without requiring templates

28. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Storage Migration - Live migration of virtual machine disk between storage domains Tech Preview

29. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
POSIX Filesystem - Infrastructure to support other shared file systems
e.g., Gluster, IBM GPFS, etc

30. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Gluster Management - Management of Gluster Infrastructure (Red Hat Storage) Tech Preview

31. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Gluster Management - Management of Gluster Infrastructure (Red Hat Storage) Tech Preview

32. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Storage
Gluster Management - Management of Gluster Infrastructure (Red Hat Storage) Tech Preview

33. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.1
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Autostart VM Pools - Extend VM pools to autostart virtual machines
SPICE
Native USB - Native USB 2.0 support in Spice (remove 3rd party USB solution)
- Support for USB remoting for Linux guests
WAN Optimizations - Optimizations for low bandwidth / high latency networks

34. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 3.2
RHEV 3.2 – Target H1-2013
RHEL 6.4 - Based on RHEL 6.4 Hypervisor
Host Level SLA - SLA / QoS for CPU, memory and network
UI Plugins - Extension framework for RHEV plugins
Array Offload - Offload basic storage operations to array – clone, delete, etc

35. RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION
RHEV 4.0
RHEV 4.0 – Target H2 - 2013
RHEL 7.0 - Based on RHEL7 Hypervisor
New Storage - Remove need for SPM
Infrastructure - Mixed storage types in same pool – iSCSI, FC, NFS
SLA Manager - Cluster-wide Service Level / QOS Management
RHEV-H Plugins - Third party plugin framework for RHEV-H
Quantum - Network Management Service
Open vSwitch - Multilayer Virtual Switch

36. QUESTIONS?
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