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infrastructure,” said Gunnar Hellekson,
Director, Product Management, Linux and
Virtualization, Red Hat.
“With enhancements in Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2, including improved
user interface, user-managed networking,
disaster recovery features and tighter
integration with the rest of Red Hat’s
portfolio, we expect organisations to find
it even easier to use and manage Red Hat
Enterprise Linux hypervisor.”
The latest version of Red Hat Virtualisation
builds on Red Hat’s recognised leadership
for high performing, highly-available and
more easily scalable virtual machine (VM)
workloads. Specifically, Red Hat Virtualization
4.2 introduces new and enhanced
capabilities around:
• User Interface (UI): Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2 delivers an easier-to-use
and more intuitive user interface. Using
the open source PatternFly project, the
Red Hat Virtualization UI now provides a
cohesive look and feel to other Red Hat
offerings, including Red Hat CloudForms.
This is designed to help increase
productivity for IT operations, as users
can more comfortably move between
management tools without having to
relearn basic functions
• Disaster Recovery (DR): New disaster
recovery capabilities within Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2 deliver a native site-
to-site failover capability. Instead of
depending on integration with a specific
storage vendor, Red Hat Virtualization
can use storage at both primary and
failover sites with more reliable and
consistent data replication. Adding to
this functionality are Red Hat Ansible
Playbooks and Roles that better enable
automated failover and failback of DR
processes, which limits the potential
for human error to cause data and
operational losses
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN):
Open Virtual Network (OVN) has been
integrated with Red Hat Virtualization
4.2 to deliver a native SDN solution
through Open vSwitch. This is designed
to provide automated management of
network infrastructure and a Neutron
compatible API for external network
providers, as well as network self-service
for users, which helps to free up network
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administrators from user requests for
additional infrastructure
• Metrics and Logging: The new
metrics and logging features of Red
Hat Virtualization 4.2 deliver enhanced
real-time reporting and visualisation
capabilities built around the Elasticsearch,
Fluentd and Kibana (EFK), which help to
drive increased operational efficiency
• High Performance VM: Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2 provides a new high
performance VM option, which is
designed to streamline the process of
configuring a high-performing VM, a
necessity for extreme workloads like big
data analysis or AI. This makes it possible
for VMs running on Red Hat Virtualization
4.2 to run at nearly bare metal speeds,
offering additional performance and
efficiency for demanding applications
• GPU Virtualization: With support for
NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions, Red Hat
Virtualization environments have the
power to support more graphics and
compute-intensive applications in a
virtual environment in an organization’s
preferred location and connected device
Cross-portfolio integration and Red
Hat Virtualization Suite
Open integration is a key tenet of Red
Hat Virtualization. The latest release
delivers deeper integration across the Red
Hat portfolio, including Red Hat Ansible
Automation, Red Hat Gluster Storage,
Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform and Red Hat Satellite. Additionally,
Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 introduces Red
Hat Virtualization Suite. Comprised of Red
Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms,
the suite manages heterogeneous
environments across multiple clouds,
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