Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and KVM Roadmap

Scott M. HeroldProduct Management - Red Hat Virtualization Technologies

INTRODUCTION TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

Automated Workload Management

Reduced Infrastructure Cost

Unmatched Performance

Centralized Management of the KVM Hypervisor

ENTERPRISE IT OBJECTIVES

Lower Virtual Infrastructure cost...

Reduce dependence on a single virtualization provider

Be efficient, secure, and compliant...

Do more with less, gain high infrastructure performance, be confident that environment is secure and compliant

Be more agile…

Faster time to market, easier integration with future infrastructure technologies (containers, SDN, SDS)

ELA Expiration

Software ELAs are coming up for renegotiation, often tied to hardware lifecycle

Hardware Lifecycle

Increased hardware purchase in 2016 due to Intel lifecycle

MarketConsolidation

The market (Customers and OEMs) is apprehensive about upcoming market consolidation

MARKET CONDITIONS

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION STRATEGY

Product

Enterprise ready open Virtualization platform

Community

Invest development and thought leadership into latest technologies

Solutions

Together with ISVs, Partners, and other Red Hat products

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION 4.0

INTRODUCING...

Enterprise Virtualization Management

● Red Hat Virtualization becomes simplified Brand.● Highly extensible for new offerings and/or add-on options.● No change in current customer offerings.

WHAT’S NEW IN RHV 4.0

Enhanced Management and Automation

Infrastructure Modernization

Advanced Network Functionality

INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION

RHV-M Support for RHEL 7.2

Using the latest technologies and capabilities of the RHEL platform

Red Hat Virtualization Host

Improved lightweight hypervisor host that maximizes user flexibility and easy administration

RHEL Atomic Host - Guest Support

Provide insight into containers that are running within the virtual environment

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION HOST

ENHANCED MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION

Simplified System Dashboards

Monitoring dashboards that highlight what admins should pay attention to immediately while providing a more user friendly product experience

Disk Image Uploading

Integrated uploading of existing disk images to run as virtual machines

Improved Live Migration Policies

Adjustment of live migration policies to improve performance of operations from minutes to seconds

SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM DASHBOARDS

ADVANCED NETWORK FUNCTIONALITY

External Network API Integration

Working with partners to provide a common SDN framework for network configuration and dataplane control

RH OSP Neutron OVS - Full Support

Provide a common SDN solution across your virtual and private cloud infrastructure based on OVS

RED HAT PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS

• Centralized Operational Management of Hybrid Cloud

• Prepare for modernization efforts within IT Infrastructure

• RHV Provider as Tier-1 Citizen• Elements of UI will transition to ManageIQ

Framework• Initial Focus on Lab Management

IMPROVED PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS

• Bare Metal Host Provisioning• Guest VM Provisioning• Host Infrastructure Updates• Display of Host and Guest Errata

Updates

PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS

Provisioning

Initial deployment of infrastructure and workloads across multiple technologies

Configuration

Optimal configuration for infrastructure and running workloads

Compliance

Maintain ongoing patch and configuration compliance throughout workload lifecycle

FUTURES* Subject to Change

• vGPU Investments Upstream with NVIDIA (GRID) and Intel (GVT-G)

• Focus on high-powered technical workstations conducive to running Linux.

• Built for:

– Animation

– Oil and Gas

– Sciences/Education

– Manufacturing/Engineering

VIRTUAL TECHNICAL WORKSTATION *

* Subject to Change

• Built and tested for ROBO (remote office\branch office).

• Shared Compute (RHEV) and Storage (Gluster) on single node

• Storage Configuration and Scheduling Providing:

– Data Locality

– Fault Tolerance

HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE *

* Subject to Change

• Real Time Hypervisor for Decreased CPU Scheduling Latency

• Real Time Guest OS Kernel for Decreased Virtual CPU Operations

• Combined with existing SR-IOV capabilities for Low Latency

Networking Processing and Increased Throughput

LOW-LATENCY COMPUTING *

* Subject to Change