RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION Enterprise Virtualization is a portfolio of virtualization solutions consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, for virtualized operating systems, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, for use cases including remote desktop virtualization.

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION FOR SERVERS Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is an end-to-end virtualization solution that is designed to enable pervasive dat- acenter virtualization, and unlock unprecedented capital and operational efficiency. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers builds upon the Red Hat Enterprise platform that is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world for their most mission-critical workloads, and consists: • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager: A feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more. • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A modern hypervisor based on KVM and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

SERVER VIRTUALIZATION FEATURES AND BENEFITS Robust virtualization management features • Live Migration: Dynamically move virtual machines between hosts with no service interruption. • High Availability: Virtual machines automatically restart on another host in the case of host failure. • System Scheduler: Balance workloads in the datacenter by dynamically live-migrating virtual machines based on resource usage and policy. • Power Saver: During off-peak hours, concentrates virtual machines on fewer physical hosts to allow some host s to be powered down to achieve power savings. • Maintenance Manager: Perform maintenance on hosts without guest downtime. • Image Manager: Create new virtual machines based on templates. • Thin Provisioning: Allows creation of desktops and servers based on templates by storing only differences between new instances and the base template, saving storage space. Industry-leading performance with KVM technology • Over 400 active workload VMs on a 32 core, 1 TB serve • Messaging performance of 1 million messages per second on a single server and low latency • Up to 140% of bare metal performance with multiple VMs on a single server compared to a single bare metal oper- ating system • Up to 95% of bare metal performance for real world enterprise applications Scalability • Host: Up to 192 logical CPUs, 1 TB RAM • Guest: Up to 16 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM • Clusters: Over 100 hosts per cluster • Predictable, scalable performance for enterprise workloads from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Apache, etc. Robust, proven security model • Built on proven stable and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux including SELinux security infrastructure developed in conjunction with US National Security Agency Advanced features • Memory page sharing (memory overcommitment), advanced scheduling capabilities and more inherited from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel

RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION FOR DESKTOPS With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, complete desktop environments are hosted as virtual desktops on servers located in a centralized datacenter. Users connect to these virtual desktops, which can be either Microsoft® Win- dows® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® desktops, using either inexpensive thin clients or repurposed PCs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is an add-on to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, and provides additional functionality for desktop virtualization: • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager — Additional management tools that administrators can use to create, monitor, and maintain their virtual desktops • SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) — an adaptive remote rendering protocol able to deliver an end user experience comparable to that of physical desktop • Integrated connection broker — a web-based portal from which end-users can log into their virtual desktops KEY DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION BENEFITS Improved data security: By moving desktop environments into the datacenter, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desk- tops helps enterprises safeguard their data and keep pace with today’s fast-changing environment. Increased manageability: With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, desktop environments can be centrally cre- ated, monitored, and managed — reducing or even eliminating the need for on-site support. Increased business agility and continuity: By eliminating the dependencies between the and the under- lying hardware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops allows enterprises to defer desktop replacements and their associated costs. Additionally, this separation allows different operating systems to be accessed from the same device. Finally, the centralized nature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops makes it possible to easily backup entire desktop environments, ensuring business continuity in the event of hardware failure or catastrophic events.

KEY DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION FEATURES Security and scalability • SS L Encryption — Ensures secure data transmission between virtual desktops and the devices used to access them • Memory page sharing — Maximizes the number of virtual desktops that can be hosted on a single hypervisor, low- ering infrastructure and management costs • CPU and Core Abstraction — Virtual desktops can use up to 16 virtual CPUs presented as virtual processors and virtual cores. For example, the maximum 16 virtual CPUs can be presented as 16 single-core CPUs, 8 dualcore CPUs, 4 quad-core CPUs, or 2 eight-core CPUs. This allows operating systems like Windows XP that only support 2 CPUs to take maximum advantage ofvirtualization server resources. Advanced Desktop Management • Rapid provisioning — Create new desktop environments in minutes • Linked images — Provision new virtual desktops based on master images, saving up to 90 percent storage capacity • Desktop pooling — Create groups of virtual desktops that can be accessed on-demand, simplifying the provisioning process and increasing flexibility • Search-based management — Easily search for virtual desktops with specific applications and specific versions, enabling rapid identification of virtual desktops in need of upgrades or patches Exceptional End-User Experience • High-resolution display — Users experience native color (32 bit), high resolution displays (up to 1920 x 1080 each) on their virtual desktops • Streaming video — Users can view high-quality streaming video on their virtual desktops • Multi-monitor display — Users can connect up to four monitors to a single virtual desktop • Bi-directional audio and video — Users can make VoIP and video-conference calls from their virtual desktops • USB redirection — Users can connect any USB 1.0 or 2.0 device to their virtual desktops

SUMMARY Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers offers robust virtualization management features, record-breaking virtualization performance and scalability, proven enterprise security, advanced hypervisor features, and a complete ecosystem of sup- ported hardware, operating systems, and applications. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops increases the security, manageability, and agility of enterprise desktop deploy- ments. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only virtualization platform that unified desktop and server virtualization into a single comprehensive management system and breaks down the barriers to pervasive server and desktop virtualization.

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS Guest operating system support • Accelerated network and disk drivers for highest performance • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests (32 bit and 64 bit): RHEL 3, RHEL 4, RHEL 5, RHEL 6 • Microsoft Windows Guests (32 bit and 64 bit): Windows 2003 R1/R2 server, Windows 2008 R1/ R2 server, Windows XP (32bit only), Windows 7. SVVP and WHQL certified. Hardware support • All 64-bit x86 servers that support Intel VT or AMD-V technology and are certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux are certified for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization supports NAS/NFS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage topologies.

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