Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager becomes open source, fails to become Linux-friendly – UPDATED
This is not exactly a bright moment for Red Hat, which received severe critics from VMware about several aspects of its Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform.
While it’s true that this a 1.0 version and it’s then acceptable that it has a number of limitations, it’s still true that Red Hat is supposedly developing this product since at least one year and a half (as soon as it acquired the startup Qumranet) and that it has to immediately deliver a very competitive product if it wants to play against VMware.
And probably to accelerate the process of maturation of RHEV, this week the company announced that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) will become an open source project.
Unfortunately this won’t help still for a long time.
In a recent online presentation in fact, Red Hat revealed a number of details about its roadmap for RHEV that are all but promising:
- the upcoming RHEV-M 2.2 will still require Windows Server 2008
- to offer RHEV-M high-availability then, customers will have to use Windows clustering services
- while the product is being ported now in Java so to be used on every platform including Linux, the new Java-Based RHEV-M won’t be ready before another year or so (probably in the form of version 3.0)
- RHEV-M 2.2 probably won’t support any form of storage live migration
On top of that, apparently, Red Hat has no current plans to offer a limited free edition of its KVM-based hypervisor as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V are.
Despite that, and the many limitations above, Red Hat is claiming a significant saving when its virtualization platform is compared to VMware and Microsoft ones:
(quite interestingly, Citrix is not part of the comparison)
At the same time Red Hat claims better performance than competitors with several mission critical workloads:
Easy to guess, VMware will have something to say about this.
Update: Apparently, the RHEV-M porting to Java will imply the adoption of JBoss.
Support for third party databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL) is also planned.
virtualization.info Newest articles
December 20th, 2011
Oracle has released version 4.1.8 of its virtualization platform VM VirtualBox. This version which can be considered a maintenance release can be installed on top of any VM VirtualBox 4.1.x…
December 20th, 2011
VKernel, recently acquired by Quest Software has released version 4.5. of its vOperations Suite (vOps). vOperations is a suite of products providing Performance Analysis, Capacity Management, Resource Optimization, Reporting and…
December 7th, 2011
Teradici is the developer of the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) remote desktop protocol, which is leveraged in software (by VMware view) and provided with Teradici hardware solutions which are OEM’ed by several…
December 7th, 2011
Citrix has released a whitepaper titled:"Windows 2008 R2 Optimization Guide For Desktop Virtualization with XenApp 6 / 6.5", the paper which contains 23 pages outlines optimization for XenApp 6 and…
December 6th, 2011
In November Microsoft released a public beta of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) version 6.5. Today Microsoft announced its release, which is the follow-up of version 6.0 which…
December 6th, 2011
Open source vendor Red Hat has released version 6.2 of its Linux distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This version is the follow-up of version 6.1 which was released in May…
December 6th, 2011
Microsoft has released version 3.2 of the Linux Integration Services for its hypervisor Hyper-V. This version is the follow-up of version 3.1 which was released in July this year.
The…
November 29th, 2011
Since its first official release beginning 2009, the Virtual Session Indexer(VSI) has gained popularity as an independent benchmarking tool. One of the projects using the VSI tool is Project Virtual…
November 21st, 2011
VMware has released version 4.1 of its desktop virtualization platform for Apple Mac: Fusion. This release is considered an minor upgrade for version 4.0 which was released in September this…
November 21st, 2011
In September VMware released a new major version of its virtualization platform Workstation 8.0 and in October it released Player 4.0. Now VMware released an update for its virtualization platform…
November 17th, 2011
VMware has released version 4.7 of of its application virtualization solution ThinApp. This version includes the ability to use ThinApp packages in combination with its Software as a Service (SaaS)…
November 17th, 2011
VKernel, provider of performance and capacity management products, has announced its acquisition by Quest Software. VKernel will operate as a independent subsidiary of Quest.
VKernel entered the virtualization market in…
November 16th, 2011
Lanamark has released a new version of its Capacity Planning platform Suite, this version is the follow up of version 2010 which was released in March last year.
Suite 2012…
November 15th, 2011
In November last year, started releasing Solaris 11 Express, the development version eventually leading to the release of Oracle Solaris 11 which was released last week. Solaris is one of…
Copyright © 2003-2012 virtualization.info. All rights reserved.
virtualization.info | cloudcomputing.info | virtualization.tv | Virtualization Congress