RHEV 3.0 Sets Stage for VMware Challenge


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The release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 signals that 2012 will be the year that IT managers at organizations of all sizes have real choices to make when it comes to virtualizing workloads in the data center. RHEV 3.0 and the Microsoft Windows Server 8 release candidate both offer a challenge to the currently unrivaled data center virtualization lead position held by VMware vSphere 5.

Until now, IT virtualization managers could use VMware vSphere without much question to run workloads of all types. RHEV 3.0 successfully challenged this operating assumption in tests at eWEEK Labs. The revamped Red Hat Enterprise Manager (RHEM) for Servers— with sizeable increases in virtual machine (VM) resource allocations and tighter integration with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (RHEL 6.2)—means that IT managers can begin to consider RHEV 3.0 a viable competitor to other virtualization platforms, including VMware.

RHEV 3.0 became available Jan. 18. RHEV for Servers Standard (business hours support) costs $499/socket/year. RHEV Premium (24/7 support) lists for $749/socket/year.

RHEV 3.0 is built on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM) hypervisor, which itself started as a Red Hat project that was released to the open-source community.

Sumber : http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualization/RHEV-30-Sets-Stage-for-VMware-Challenge-885501/
 
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