Red Hat recently announced that they have begun beta testing of their new virtualisation products.
This announcement originally reared it’s head in February, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation product portfolio, is based on Qumranet’s KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. It is made up of a new standalone hypervisor and virtualisation managers for servers and desktops.
Red Hat will continue supporting existing deployments of Xen based installations, however is looking to migrate customers to the new KVM based offerings.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (for Servers) promises live migration, snapshots, a system scheduler, power and image managers, and a comprehensive monitoring/reporting system.
For more information on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio go to this page: http://www.redhat.com/virtualization-strategy/
According to Red Hat, the products are “on track for final delivery later this year”.
