Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization : Challenging VMWare

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 Beta is now available. Red Hat is widely promoting their Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization through Google AdWords too. Let us have a look on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization software.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization – Challenging VMWare

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is directly Challenging VMWare through their Ads. Exact Lines are “VMWare Customers are worried, 73% are looking for another vendor. Join them”. You can see the Leaderboard Advert in our screen shot of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Advert added in this post.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization – what are the offerings

Nothing new to say about Red Hat. They produces the widely accepted most stable Linux distro for the servers. As virtualization is penetrating more and more, it is a quite obvious step for Red Hat to get in to the Virtualization Software market more aggressively. They are calling the suite as ‘Superior virtualization for a fraction of the price’.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers:

Enterprise virtualization features like live migration and load balancing. This is very important point. It is an open source alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms, which is obviously a great idea. According to the official publication from Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization crushes the competition, powering over 450 high-performance virtual machines on a single hypervisor. At the heart of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the open source KVM hypervisor leads the industry in overall performance and scale-up as measured by the SPECvirt industry-standard virtualization benchmark.

You can try the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta 3 from this link.