Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers: Features & benefits

Virtualize your entire datacenter. Significantly boost your capital and operational efficiency. It's easy with Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, our end-to-end server virtualization solution.

High performance and scalability

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers gives you near-bare-metal and better-than-bare-metal performance, and industry-leading scalability for enterprise workloads. You can virtualize even the most demanding application workloads with features, including:

• Record-setting results on the industry-standard virtualization benchmark SPECvirt, including the highest overall performance and the highest number of performant VMs on a single server.
• Support for the latest Intel and AMD server chipsets for superior consolidation and VM performance.
• Up to between 95% and 140% performance relative to bare metal for real-world enterprise workloads like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Exchange.
• More than 1 million messages per second on a single server with low latency.
• Consolidation ratios of more than 400 VMs with enterprise workloads running on a single server.

Easy manageability

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is a feature-rich server-virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including:

• NEW! Self-service user portal
• High availability
• Live migration
• Storage management
• System scheduler

Unmatched enterprise security

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers uses SELinux with sVirt and the hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel to provide a secure virtualization infrastructure.

Unparalleled ecosystem for virtualized hardware and software

• The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ISV program is a vibrant ecosystem of partners offering solutions in complementary areas, like backup and recovery, workflow automation, and capacity planning.
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers also supports the leading enterprise hardware, operating systems, and applications certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)-certified to support current supported versions of Windows operating systems and Microsoft server applications.