Red Hat touts x64 virtualization with RHEV H

With the launch of RHEV H, the nickname of the hypervisor, and its companion, RHEV Manager (dubbed RHEV M because everyone in IT talks in shorthand), Red Hat has almost completed the rollout of the virtualization products it outlined in February. The RHEV Desktop edition, which will be a bare-metal hypervisor for PCs, is in beta now and will be generally available in early 2010, according to Navin Thadani, senior director of the virtualization business at Red Hat.

This packaging is a little different from what Red Hat was talking about back in February. Red Hat said it would be embedding KVM in a future RHEL 5 release and then putting out a standalone hypervisor based on KVM (and using RHEL as the kernel to support the hypervisor); beside this would be RHEV Manager for Servers, a hypervisor and virtual machine management tool aimed at server customers, and RHEV Manager for Desktops, a commercialized version of the SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) setup that Qumranet originally went to market with shortly before Red Hat ate the company. With today’s announcement, the RHEV hypervisor and related RHEV Manager tool may be separate products, but they are bundled as one and have a single support price: $499 per managed server socket per year for a standard support contract (five days, business hours) and $749 per managed server socket per year for premium support (24×7).

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