Virtualization

LinuxIT is a Red Hat RHEV Specialist Business Partner and Red Hat Premier Partner.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers (RHEV) is an end-to-end virtualization solution that is designed to enable pervasive datacentre virtualization, and significantly enhance capital and operational efficiency.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can help you virtualize your critical enterprise server workloads with unbeatable performance, unbreakable security, and the lowest cost in class.

It also builds upon the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform that is trusted by thousands of organisations on millions of systems around the world for mission-critical workloads. It provides:

• Record-breaking performance and scalability
• Industry-leading security
• Widest ecosystem of hardware and enterprise ISVs
• Lowest total cost of ownership in its class

An ideal platform on which to build an internal or private cloud of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows virtual machines Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers consists of the following components:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers: A feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A modern hypervisor based on Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology, which can be deployed either as the standalone bare metal hypervisor (included), or as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later (purchased separately) installed as a hypervisor host and managed through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers.

Virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads, according to industry analysts. This slow adoption is due to barriers to virtualization not currently addressed by existing virtualization products. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization helps your organisation meet the challenges of virtualization:

• Performance and scalability: providing near- and better-than-bare metal performance and industry-leading scalability for enterprise workloads.
• Security: leveraging SELinux and the hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel to provide a secure virtualization infrastructure.
• Ecosystem: supporting the leading enterprise hardware, operating systems, and applications certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Cost: bringing unbeatable value in enterprise virtualization - by subscription.

Why consider Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization?

It removes the cost, security and scalability barriers that currently hold back 100% enterprise-wide virtualization.

Choosing Red Hat means:

• Ready-to-go virtualization for even the most demanding mission-critical environments
• Freedom and choice, with no vendor lock-in or licensing costs - ever
• A pay-as-you-go model, with new releases, security patches and fixes included throughout your subscription
• Advanced virtualization management, making it easier to manage even massive deployments
• Outstanding scalability, from single server virtualization through to the world's largest clouds
• A military grade security framework, developed in conjunction with the US National Security Agency

Continuous testing, refinement and innovation through the commitment of a global developer network

LinuxIT is part of VMware's global network of best-of-breed technology and service partners who work to expand and serve the market for computer virtualization.

Together with VMware, LinuxIT delivers solutions that help businesses innovate and grow, while simplifying computing infrastructure and minimising total cost of ownership (TCO). VM Ware systems are available to support virtual servers, desk tops and virtualization management.

Choosing a Business Infrastructure Virtualization Solution

As virtualization is now a critical component to an overall IT strategy, it is important to choose the right vendor. VMware is the leading business virtualization infrastructure provider, offering the most trusted and reliable platform for building private clouds and federating to public clouds. Find out how only VMware delivers on the core requirements for a business virtualization infrastructure solution.

1. Is built on a robust, proven foundation
2. Delivers a complete virtualization platform from desktop through the data-centre out to the public cloud
3. Provides the most comprehensive virtualization and cloud management
4. Integrates with your overall IT infrastructure
5. Is proven with over 190,000 customers

Low total-cost-of-ownership (TCO)

According to Gartner, virtualization will be the most significant trend through to at least 2012.

Server Virtualization brings big benefits. From reduced costs to new IT efficiencies to new Capex and Opex flexibility for your business, virtualization helps small businesses and large enterprises alike. Vizioncore is the market leader of management tools to assist the new operational challenges and added complexity for IT. Vizioncore helps over 20,000 customers to reclaim system space, recover virtual machines, reduce staff hours by 75% to recover your systems and to save thousands by not having to buy more tape!