RED HAT ENTERPRISE

VIRTUALIZATION 3.4

Session 01:
Overview
Agenda

● Market Dynamics
● What is RHEV?
● oVirt
● Advantages and Benefits
● Use Cases
● Next Steps

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 AGENDA

MARKET DYNAMICS

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Dual Vendor Reality

● Server virtualization is a mature

technology.
● More than 60% of customers surveyed
are either already deploying a dual
virtualization vendor strategy or have
concrete plans to do so.
● Customers are using Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization as second source to
VMware.

SOURCE: ESG,
“Multiple Hypervisor Usage Trends,” Dec 2012

A MAJORITY OF ENTERPRISES ARE LOOKING FOR

ALTERNATIVES TO VMWARE

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IT is Transforming

“In 2014, many organizations will look

“ Cloud spending will to move cloud computing past the
grow a remarkable 25%, early phase and constrained use cases
reaching more than $100 billion.” and into more widespread, production
adoption.”

IDC GARTNER

“In 2014, traditional IT departments will stop asking "Why cloud?" and instead
get busy integrating cloud into the existing portfolio, extending datacenter
infrastructures with elastic cloud technologies, and consuming new bespoke
platforms and private cloud solutions to back the moves by DevOps and line
of business.”

SOURCES:
● IDC Predictions 2014: Battles for Dominance and Survival — on the 3rd Platform
FORRESTER
● 2014 Planning Guide for Cloud Computing – Gartner

● Predictions For 2014: Cloud Computing Cloud Formally Joins The IT Portfolio — Whether IT Likes It Or Not - Forrester

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The Drivers for IT Transformation

● Business wants agility, lower

cost, and new capabilities.

● IT is struggling with existing

legacy infrastructure
architecture and cost model.

● Cloud providers are using

next- generation IT built on
open source technologies.

● IT needs to adopt cloud

architectures and technologies
to close the innovation gap.

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RHCI

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You Have a Choice for Virtualization

“As virtualization enters the mainstream of IT and the cloud era, the
ecosystem and integrations it brings are essential to the success of
any virtualization platform. There are many indications that the
virtualization market is primed for change, and the makeup of the
market could look dramatically different in a few years. RHEV is
poised to be a strong contender, building on the success of Linux
and Red Hat to become an open alternative. ”
— Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Whitepaper, IDC,
April 2013

“[RHEV] marks a significant upgrade on Red Hat’s enterprise

virtualization capabilities. With so much of our cloud infrastructure
deployed on open source products, Red Hat has reminded CIOs
and service providers that there is a technically accomplished
and ultra-competitive alternative to proprietary virtualization
products.”
— Techworld Awards 2012, Techworld, September 2012

YOU HAVE A CHOICE IN VIRTUALIZATION

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Some of our Customers

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 AGENDA

WHAT IS RHEV?

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What is RHEV?

RHEV Manager

RHEV APIs and

management engine
and ALL features

RHEV RHEV RHEV

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

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To Make it More Simple...

VMWARE RHEV
vCenter Server RHEV-M

Enterprise Plus features

Enterprise features
Standard features RHEV APIs and
management engine
vSphere APIs and and ALL features
management engine

ESXi RHEV-H

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
VIRTUALIZATION FOR TRADITIONAL WORKLOADS,
ON-RAMP TO OPENSTACK
● Leading performance: Top virtualization
benchmarks for performance and
COMPLETE DATACENTER scalability
VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTION ● Affordable: Lower TCO and higher ROI
than competitive platforms
● Enterprise-ready: Powerful mix of
enterprise features and a rich set of
partners
● Open: Offers choice and interoperability
with no proprietary lock-in
● Cross-platform: Optimized for Microsoft
Windows and Linux guests
● Integration with OpenStack: Common
services layer to facilitate transition to
cloud/elastic workloads

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RHEV Architecture

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RHEV Hypervisor Overview

SMALL-FORM FACTOR, SCALABLE, ● Inherits performance, scalability,

HIGH PERFORMANCE HYPERVISOR security, and supportability of Red
BASED ON RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Hat Enterprise Linux
● Shares Red Hat Enterprise Linux
hardware and software
ecosystem
● Host: 160 logical CPU (4,096
theoretical max), 2TB RAM (64TB
theoretical max)
● Guest: 160 vCPU,
2TB RAM
● Supports latest silicon
virtualization technology
● Microsoft certified for Windows
guests

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RHEV-M Overview

● Centralized virtual infrastructure management (e.g., hosts, virtual machines (VMs),

networking, storage, templates)
● Designed for large scale (500+ hosts and 5,000+ VMs)
● Administrative interfaces include: GUI, RESTful API with session support, Linux CLI,
Python SDK

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RHEV-M Features

● High availability
● Live migration
● Storage live migration
● Live snapshots
● Load balancing (DRS)
● Power saver (DPM)
● Hot-plug disk and NIC
● Storage on local disk, FC, iSCSI,
NFS, Red Hat Storage Server, IBM
GPFS, POSIX or Direct LUN
● Self-service portal with quotas
● Integrated Red Hat Storage Server
management*
● Eco-system marketplace
● Third-party UI plugin support

*Technology preview

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RHEV User and Power User Portals
● Enables users to self-provision
VMs
● Create, edit, or remove VMs
● Manage and monitor virtual
infrastructure
● Tied to Microsoft Active Directory,
Red Hat Identity Management,
other LDAP
● Resource management with
quotas and object/role security
● Essential internal cloud capability

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 New Features in RHEV 3.4

OpenStack integration Infrastructure management & automation

●Build a cloud with a common set of ● Advanced multi-host network
shared services configuration
➢ OpenStack Glance integration
 New advanced service engine for storage of ● Robust enterprise storage features
virtual machine templates and ISO images ➢ Share different storage protocol types

➢ OpenStack Neutron integration (iSCSI, FCP, NFS, Posix, Gluster) within the
Service for private cloud network same datacenter
configuration ➢ Choice of single disk snapshots such as the


Seamless path to software-defined operating system or data disk
networking
➢
KVM-based hypervisor ● Enterprise full stack management
● Facilitate transition to cloud-enabled ➢ Customized scheduler enhancements
workloads ➢ Affinity/Anti-Affinity workload grouping

● Bridge the gap between the cloud and ➢ Hot Plug CPU

➢ SNMP configuration service

the datacenter
➢ Persistent cloud-init metadata
● Consolidate duplicate services into a

common shared service across enterprise

virtualization and private cloud

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Advanced Security

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization inherits

the security features of Linux and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux
●
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has
achieved Common Criteria Certification
at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+
●
SELinux security policy infrastructure
●
Provides protection and isolation for
VMs and host
●
Compromised VM cannot access other
VMs or host
sVirt project
●
Sub-project of NSA's SELinux
community
●
Provides “hardened” hypervisor
●
Multi-level security
●
Isolated guests
●
Contains any hypervisor breaches

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RHEV for VDI


Complete Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure solution now
included in RHEV subscription

User experience comparable to a
local desktop PC

Windows & Linux desktops

Integrated connection broker

Pooling, templating

SPICE intelligent protocol

SmartCard support

SPICE proxy server

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Monitoring and Reporting


Historical usage, trending, and
quality of service

Integrated reporting engine based
on Jasper reports

More than 25 pre-built reports and
dashboards included

Ability to create and customize
reports and templates

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Integration and Automation


Integration

RESTful API for integration
with Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager

Python SDK

Plug-in framework for third-
party UI plugins to
seamlessly integrate with
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager

Automation

Linux command-line
interface for scripting and
automation

HOOKS mechanism allows
custom scripts to modify VM
operations

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 AGENDA

oVirt

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Open Virtualization Management (oVirt)

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 AGENDA

Advantages and Benefits

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Industry Leading Virtualization Performance

SPECvirt_sc2010: As of November 15, 2013, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization claims 10

of the top 15 results and the only 8-socket and 16-socket server scores.

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Cost Advantage

● Simple subscription pricing

($999/ $1499 per socket-
pair per year)
● Single comprehensive

edition with all features

● Lower acquisition cost

accelerates ROI
● New releases can be

immediately incorporated at
no additional cost

● 10 physical hosts (2 sockets each)

● Same density across both

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Cost Performance Over 3 Years
(DOLLARS PER SPECVIRT_SC2010)

● VMware costs average

$5.33/SPECvirt_sc2010 over
three years
● Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
costs average
$1.70/SPECvirt_sc2010 over
three years
● Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
gives same or better performance
at less than 1/3 the cost

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 AGENDA

Use Cases

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Unix to Linux Migration

Financial trading/online banking system that supports 1

● Improve performance
million customers per day relative to old legacy
UNIX hardware
● Tremendous cost
savings by moving from
proprietary stack to
commodity/x86-based
RHEL/RHEV stack
● Improved isolation,
manageability, and
flexibility

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Linux Hardware Refresh

● Virtualize Red Hat

Enterprise Linux
workloads without re-
platforming.
● Gain performance on
workloads by P2V and
running on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization
on new hardware.
● Run multiple workloads
on new hardware to
take advantage of
server consolidation.

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Mission Critical Applications

Consolidation of Oracle Financials, ● Virtualize mission-critical

database, and other mission-critical applications without
applications on Red Hat Enterprise sacrificing performance.
Virtualization
● Monster VM sizes enable
better virtualized
performance on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization.
● ISV certifications on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
transfer to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on Red
Hat Enterprise
Virtualization.

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On-Ramp to OpenStack

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

● Facilitate the transition of key enterprise virtualization workloads into the private
cloud
● Build a cloud with a common set of shared services

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Test and Dev Environments

Private cloud for Linux application ● Provide self-service for

development and hosting
test/dev environments
with Power User Portal
● Quotas and permissions
for effective resource
management
● Linux CLI, advanced
REST-API, session
support for
customization and
extension

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 AGENDA

Next Steps

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ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION 3.3 | JAN 2014
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