Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 enables OpenStack-ready Cloud infrastructure

Red Hat, Inc. has announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3, featuring expanded datacenter virtualization and management along with seamless workload scaling and integration.

Designed to deliver traditional datacenter virtualization while providing an on-ramp to OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables a wide variety of enterprises to deploy traditional and elastic workloads on their existing infrastructure without impacting service levels, performance or scalability. The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables customers to deploy a common set of OpenStack services (Compute, Storage and Networking) that can be used by their datacenter virtualization platform through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, as well as their private cloud through Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. With a cohesive environment between the private cloud and the datacenter, a variety of enterprises may now deploy traditional and elastic workloads without having to duplicate infrastructure layers.

The newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization includes several enhanced infrastructure, networking and storage features to enhance developer portability across a heterogeneous cloud environment, including:

A new self-hosted engine, allowing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager to be deployed as a virtual machine on the host, reducing hardware requirements;

Back-up and restore API integration, now including a new backup infrastructure providing a rich API set for third party software vendors to backup and restore their virtual machines; and

Support for OpenStack Glance and OpenStack Neutron, enabling users to store their virtual machine templates and enable advanced networking configurations with a shared infrastructure between private clouds and datacenter virtualization.

Fully Supported, Updated and Integrated External Applications
In June 2013, Red Hat introduced a third-party plug-in framework for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2. With the plug-in framework, third parties can integrate new features and actions directly into the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization management user interface. Since the announcement, the below industry leaders have completed the development of their plug-ins. These fully supported plug-ins include:

HP: The HP Insight Control Plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides actionable, valuable insight on underlying HP hardware. The plug-in simplifies operations, enhances reliability and minimizes downtime by enabling administrators to combine physical and virtual views within a single management platform;

NetApp: The NetApp Virtual Console for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables discovery, provisioning, modification and rapid cloning of NetApp NFS from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager. VM administrators can now gain comprehensive visibility, flexibility and efficiency optimization of their NetApp storage; and

Symantec: SymantecTM Veritas Cluster Server powered by Veritas provides automated disaster recovery functionality to keep applications up and running. Veritas Cluster Server enables application specific fail-over and significantly reduces recovery time by eliminating the need to restart applications in case of a failure.