When VMware went into production about 5 years ago, it was essentially the Windows workloads that were being virtualized. At that time, these workloads were less mission critical and were less utilized as servers so they made ideal candidates for server virtualization, explained Navin Thadani, Senior Director Virtualization Business, Red Hat.
It became a great test case and CIOs quickly saw the advantages to virtualization. Time to crank up the Linux side of the business as well. The Linux guys explained that VMware isn’t the only game in town.
Customers that come to Red Hat are looking for alternatives to VMware, Thadani said.
Thadani argued that Red Hat offers solutions that can handle far more demanding workloads than other hypervisor competitors, specifically VMware. IBM and NTT are basing their entire public cloud infrastructure on the Red Hat virtualization substrate.
Red Hat’s hypervisor is the KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machines, which is a module in the Linux kernel that converts the Linux kernel into a hypervisor. It runs Linux VMs as well as Windows VMs.
To manage that hypervisor you don’t need to deal with Linux’s command-line management. REV, or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is the front-end graphical centralized management system that behaves just like vSphere and vCenter, Thadani said.
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