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Introduction

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is your strategic alternative to proprietary solutions.

Unlike many virtualization vendors whose solutions lock organizations into proprietary virtualization and cloud stacks, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers a superior balance of enterprise virtualization management features,performance, and scalability for Linux and Windows workloads, at a fraction of the cost. And best of all it does so without the lock-in of proprietary platforms.

The following e-guide aims to show you the importance ofvirtualizing with the right vendor, that is right for yourenvironment and right for your organization.

There’s no question of the important role virtualization is playing in data centers and IT environments across the globe.

Don’t just fi nd a vendor, fi nd a solution; 42% of organizations use multiple hypervisors to maximize features & minimize cost — InfoTech Research Group, July 2011

Enterprise grade, centralized management andhypervisor for server anddesktop virtualization

Industry leading performance and scalability and security infrastructure

Ecosystem of thousands of hardware and software vendors

50–70% lower cost compared to other solutions

Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will immediately benefi t your top level operations as well as your bottom line profi ts.

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?Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is a complete virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization and the fi rst enterprise-ready, fully open-source virtualization platform. RHEV represents a true strategic virtualization alternative to organizations looking for better total cost of ownership, faster return on investment, accelerated break-even, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

We believe open source simply creates better software.As a result, the open source model often builds higher quality, more secure, more easily integrated software. And it does it at a vastly accelerated pace and often at a lower cost.

RHEV is based on the powerful open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and the oVirt open virtualization management platform, both projects begun at Red Hat and released to the open source community.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Why open source?

All software has source code. Open source software grants every user access to that code. Freedom means choice.Choice means power.

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Industry leading performance as measured by SPECvirt benchmarks see www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/

Power user portal which allows users to manage theirown virtual machines

RHEV Marketplace with add-on software that integrates directly with RHEV

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Understanding RHEV & KVM Deploying Red Hat EnterpriseVirtualization and KVM in yourenvironment (see diagram) delivers advanced technical features andbenefi ts, such as:

Superior scalabilityHost: 160 logical CPU (4,096 theoretical max), 2TB RAM (64TB theoretical max)Guest: 64 vCPU, 2TB RAM

Supports latest hardware virtualization technologies from Intel and AMD

Based on the latest RHEL 6.2 kernel for high performance, hardware enablement, and security

Microsoft SVVP (Server Virtualization Virtualization Validation Program) certifi ed for Windows operating systems and suppored by Red Hat and Microsoft

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Red Enterprise Virtualization has it.

Requires a RHEV subscription on the physical server (RHEL is optional and usually just for RHEL guests)

Supports Linux and Windows VMs

Includes a high level virtual management engine with a REST API, command line, and robust GUI support for managing multiple hosts and multiple VMs from a single point of management

Has enterprise management engine to support live migration, load balancing, power management, high availability, templating, etc.

Designed to manage hundreds of hosts/thousands of VMs through a central management GUI

Inherits the broad ecosystems of supported hardware and software of

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We’ve seen improvements in how we can provide on-demand resources to our artists by leveraging open source and working with Red Hat. Red Hat has impressed us with its outstanding engineering capabilities and commitment to our strategic alliance.— Lans Carstensen, Principal Engineer, DreamWorks Animation

Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization deployed to consolidate, manage, and support the assortment of CRM systems that service all 31 customer regions. Reducing costs by using fewer physicalservers, improving manageability and productivity of IT staff and increasing server utilization and fl exibility of resource allocation.

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Our competitors are stuck in the process of setting up new instances of their applications for every client. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization frees us of that time-consuming process, making deployment a snap. None of our competitors can boast similar capabilities.— Justin Nemmers, Chief Operating Offi cer, Salsa Labs

Rather than having a hypervisor from one vendor and an operating system from another, we get both from Red Hat. — Kyle Bassett, Compute Architect, Symcor

Get your head in the CloudGet your head in the cloud, but keep your feet on the ground with Red Hat. Our solutions actively assist cloud adoption and deployment offering benefi ts unrivalled by our competition.

We are the only Cloud vendor acknowledging choice at the hypervisor and cloud levels.

You can choose the best platform for each workload, using Red Hat to break the proprietary model.

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The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat’s full portfolio of open source solutions delivers value, performance, security, and reliability at the lowest TCO.

With Red Hat, there is no proprietary vendor lock-in, and the support model is greatly simplifi ed, allowing customers to deal with a single vendor for their entire stacks, including support and patching.

As our real-world application testing demonstrates, Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications run best on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, delivering up to 96% of bare metal performance.

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How open is your stack if you’re locked in?

If I were VMware, I wouldn’t worry most about Microsoft, with its tendency to subsume low-end, small business markets by including everything in the Windows operating system. That’s so 1990s. Rather,I’d worry that Red Hat and KVM already have a foot in the cloud.

— VMware Should Worry More About Red Hat, InformationWeek, September 2011

A virtualized JBoss Enterprise Middleware environment under Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is effi cient, effective, and scalable to adapt to changing demand with a design that focuses on maintainability while yielding highly available systems.

In order to achieve the best performance, availability, and security needed to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a virtual environment, organizations should use a combination of Red Hat Network Satellite for systems management and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for virtualization management.

You rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology for your mission-critical applications and network infrastructure. When you are considering virtualizing your Red Hat workloads, the clear choice is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Say no to lock-in...

XSelecting the right virtualization vendor is absolutely critical to the long term success and sustainability of your IT environment. Proprietary vendors are not for everyone, and Red Hat is fast becoming the virtualization vendor of choice.

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InfoTech Reportengage.redhat.com/forms/infotech-rhev

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If I were VMware, I wouldn’t worry most about Microsoft, with its tendency to subsume low-end, small business markets by including everything in the Windows operating system. That’s so 1990s.

Rather, I’d worry that Red Hat and KVM already have a foot in the cloud.

VMware Should Worry More About Red Hat, Information Week, September 2011

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