Red Hat Virtualization
Sebastian Pascu Pre-Sales Engineer / Romsym Data
Benefits of Virtualization
Reduced cost z
Improve server utilization
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Reduce hardware costs
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Reduce power consumption
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Manage more efficiently
Agility z
Operational scalability
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Rapid provisioning
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Business continuity
Security z
Isolated Systems
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Market
Virtualization is fastest growing technology in the data center z $1B market in 2006 z Up $618 from 2005 z Estimated to be a $2B market by 2008
Analysts estimate that only 5% of servers are virtualized z Expected to rise to 15% by 2011 Breakdown of deployments z Development : 61% z Non Critical workloads : 47% z Critical workloads : 33% 3
Economics
Red Hat eliminates the economic barriers to adopting virtualization enterprise wide
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization comes at no additional cost
Virtualize any system without added investment z Run on your existing hardware z No costs for virtualization software z No extra subscription costs for “guest” virtual machines z RHEL subscription provides 4 virtual guest subscriptions z RHEL AP provides unlimited guest subscriptions
Allows customer to deploy virtualization anywhere With Red Hat there is no penalty for Virtualization 4
Performance and Scalability Red Hat provides the most scalable Virtualization platform z z
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Scales from single CPU servers to largest multi core machines The only virtualization platform that spans the entire enterprise z From x86 up to Itanium2 Scales to meet the needs of enterprise class workloads z Supports up to 32 virtual CPUs per guest z Supports up to 1024 cores per host z Up to 16GB memory per guest z Up to 16TB of memory per host z Dynamically allocate resources to respond to business needs z Add memory or CPU resources on-the-fly z Scale-up or scale-down resources z Live Migrate servers to take advantage of unused resources 5
Virtualization First Shipped in Enterprise Linux 5
Rich Virtualization features z
Released Feb 2007
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Live migration
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Clustering
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Support for Linux and Windows guests
Paved new ground: Deployed in areas previously considered “off limits” to virtualization z
High performance databases
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ERP systems
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Mission critical production workloads
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Time and latency sensitive trading applications
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Linux virtualization is growing fastest (51% CAGR bis 2012)*
$1.7 Mrd. $3.1 Mrd.
*Linux maket share 12% in 2007, 31% in 2012 7
Compatibility Run virtualization on your existing hardware „
VMware has very limited hardware compatibility list z Publishes HCL for z Server hardware z Storage Arrays (SANs) z IO Cards (HBAs)
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Consolidated Management
Red Hat Automation allows you to manage all your servers z Manage virtual and physical servers using the same tools and infrastructure z No more “siloed data centers” z Manager your integrated infrastructure
Consistent tools and technology across platforms Create high availability clusters that include physical and virtutal machines
Complete lifecycle management z Provision, manage and monitor Physical and virtual machines from a single management platform
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libvirt „
Provides a standard management interface z Hypervisor agnostic z Will work with multiple hypervisors z Stable API z Shield users from hypervisor changes z Consistent tools across hypervisors z eg. Same interface for Xen, QEMU, KVM, OpenVZ, etc z Scriptable z Provides APIs for developers / tool vendors z Allows vendors to build cross platform tools
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libvirt
Adopted by leading vendors
Red Hat z Shipped in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Novell z Shipped in Open SUSE and SLES (10 sp1+)
Sun z Sun xVM z Solaris Xen and LDoms management
Community distributions z Debian, Ubuntu
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Libvirt : Management based on open standards
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libvirt
API z z z
Provides Python, Perl, C, Ruby and oCAML bindings CIM Support (RHEL 5.3) Java Bindings
Secure remote management z Secured by TLS/SSL connections z Supporting client and server certificates z SSH connections
Command line interface z virsh z Scriptable interface for VM management
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Virtual Machine Manager
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Virtualization Management Tools
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Virtualization Management Tools
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Red Hat Network A systems management platform designed to provide complete lifecycle management of the operating system and applications. „
A single solution for lifecycle management of compute resources z
Installing and provisioning new systems z Supports Physical and Virtual systems
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Updating/patching operating system
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Install and patch custom software
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Manage configuration files
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Monitoring performance
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Redeploying for a new purpose
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Benefits of Red Hat Virtualization „
RHEL 5 provides the most scalable and flexible Virtualization platform z
Allows organizations to virtualize all work loads z Provides the highest performing virtualization solution z Removes barriers to virtualizing high performance enterprise applications
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Provides 'best of breed' solution for Linux virtualization
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No additional hardware and software investment
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Reduces complexity z Use consistent tools to deploy, manage and deploy your entire infrastructure z Deploy a single platform that covers all your virtualization need z Includes support for Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 20
Security Your
virtual machines are only as secure as their host
10%
of servers use RHEL – this well proven system is the same as our virt host.
Red
Hat has a proven track record for providing a secure operating environment
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VMware is proprietary there are much fewer eyes on the code, and the days of risk are not shared. All RHEL Security Issues are fixed within 72 hours of discovery,
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