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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

Overview

December 2011

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Agenda

RHEV Overview

RHEV Features

RHEV Hands On (Installation, Live Demo)

Q & A

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Agenda

RHEV Overview

RHEV Features


Q & A

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RHEV Product Releases

Qumranet Solid ICEReleased in May 2008

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.1Released in November 2009

Enterprise grade server management system

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2Released in June 2010

Added Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with SPICE

OVF Import/Export V2V converter for VMware and Xen

Improved performance and scalability

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RHEV 2.2 Architecture

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Move from proprietary to open technologies

Remove dependency on Windows

But maintain interoperability with Windows

Open Source

RHEV 3.0 Key Initiatives

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RHEV 3.0 Architecture

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RHEV 3.0 Highlights - Platform

Migrated RHEV Manager server from C# to Java

Running on embedded JBoss EAP 5.1.1

JBoss Included in RHEV subscription

Backend database PostgreSQL 8.4

Support for multiple authentication sources

Red Hat IPA

Microsoft Active Directory

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Agenda

RHEV Overview

RHEV Features


Q & A

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Enterprise grade, centralizedmanagement and hypervisor forserver and desktop virtualization

Industry leading performance,scalability and securityinfrastructure

Ecosystem of thousands ofhardware and software vendors

5070% lower cost compared toother solutions

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

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Two packing models for the hypervisor

RHEV-HYPERVISOR: Less than 100 MB Economically ideal for Windows

guests, or mixed workloads

(RHEL + Windows). Pre-configured, no Linux skills

needed.

RHEL AS A HYPERVISOR: Flexible Security hardened, corporate

standard RHEL image as a

virtualization host.

Add monitoring agents, scriptsetc. Leverage existing RHEL

infrastructure. Economically ideal for RHEL

guests. Hybrid mode capable

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Centralized management,security and policy enforcement

Virtual desktops with user

experience of a physical PC

Multiple monitors

HD quality video

Bi-directional audio/video for

VoIP or video-conferencing

USB support

Industry leading density of virtual

desktops/server

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OVF Import/Export Import and export VMs and templates using OVF files

V2V Convert VMs from VMware and RHEL/Xen to RHEV

Feature Description

High Availability Restart guest VMs from failed hosts automatically on other hosts

Live Migration Move running VM between hosts with zero downtime

System Scheduler Continuously load balance VMs based on resource usage/policies

Power Saver Concentrate virtual machines on fewer servers during off-peak hours

Maintenance ManagerNo downtime for virtual machines during planned maintenance windows.Hypervisor patching

Image Management Template based provisioning, thin provisioning and snapshots

Monitoring & Reporting For all objects in system VM guests, hosts, networking, storage etc.

Management Features

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RHEV Manager

Search driven UImakes managingthousands ofobjects easy

Bookmarks dynamic filters andother advancedGUI functions

Cross-correlateinformation acrossusers, VMs, hosts,applications,status etc.

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Access from

Internet Exploreror Firefox on PCor thin client

User can start andstop the VM,

access theconsole and selectremote protocol SPICE or RDP

Or the portal canautomatically

launch a singleVM for the user

User Portal

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Platform

Java / JBoss

PostgreSQL

IPA

RHEL6

Performance and Scalability

Spice

RHEV 3.0 Highlights

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RHEL 6 based hypervisor Improved guest scalability

Guests up to 64 vCPUs & 256GB ram

Transparant huge pages

Dynamically create, destroy and swap huge pages EPT enhancements - Age bit support

Allows host to make smarter choices in swapping when undermemory pressure

X2apic

Virtual Interrupt Controller reduce guest overhead

sVirt

Enhanced infrastructure for security isolation and policy


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RHEL 6 based hypervisor vhost-net

Improved network performance for virtual machines

Moved network infrastructure from userspace into kernel

Significant improvements in throughput and latency

Fewer context switches and vmexits Async I/O (AIO)

Improvements for block I/O especially for I/O intensive workloads

Yields 20% on heavy I/O workloads such as databases

Block Alignment

Interrogates underlying storage hardware and pass through optimalalignment and physical sector size to guests. Ie, in support of 4Ksectors.


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RHEV 2.2 RHEV 3.0Support limit RHEV 3.0Theoretical Limit

Host

CPUs 96 128 4096

Memory 1TB 2TB 64TB

Guest

CPU 16 64 64

Memory 256GB 256GB 64TB

RHEV

Manager

Max Hosts 100 200 > 400

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SPICE

Updated to 0.8 release of SPICE

Significant performance improvements

Especially for WAN deployments

Reduced bandwidth Copy & Paste

Smartcard Support

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Admin Portal Improvements

Changes to Admin Portal to simplify administration

Based on customer feedback and UX analysis

New tree view

New Storage management interface New Network management interface

Context sensitive help on every dialog

'Landing' page with links to portals and documentation

RHEV 3.0 Highlights User Interface

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RHEV being open sourced following C# -> Java port

Split into subprojects

Backend

Frontend GUI

Node Management

Reporting

All new features developed in upstream project

RHEV will be 'downstream' product

With ~6 month release cadence following RHEL

RHEV Moving Beyond 3.0

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RHEV 3.0 has two admin interfaces

Full administration interface based on Microsoft WPF

Power user interface based on GWT / HTML

Next release will standardize on GWT / HTML Cross platform support

No requirement for Windows workstation

RHEV Web Admin

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KVM / RHEV supports offline snapshots today

Guest must be powered down take snapshot

Development happening now in upstream KVM

RHEL 6.1 has basic foundation in qemu-kvm Full support incl live merge, guest agent scheduled for RHEL 6.2

RHEV Live Snapshots

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Agenda

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Q & A

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RHEV-M: Installation

yum remove classpathx-jaf

rhn_register

yum -y update

rhn-channel -v -u YOUR-RHN-USERNAME -a -c rhel-x86_64-server-6-beta -c rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3-beta -c rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3-jboss-5-beta -c rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6-beta -crhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6

yum -y install rhevm

rhevm-setup

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RHEV-H: Installation

Download RHEV-H ISO

dd if=image of=usb-stick

Boot from usb-stick

Follow on-screen instructions

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Public Beta started 17. November 2011

http://www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3/tryrhev.html

Includes 30 day subscriptions for 2xRHEL

BYO Windows

Please join and give us feedback!

RHEV: Hands On?

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Now: Live Demo

Later:

Test Notebook available for you

RHEV-M and RHEV-H on the same machine (totallyunsupported setup)

Feel free to play around

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