Red Hat Virtualization


Red Hat Virtualization is an x86 virtualization product produced by Red Hat,
based on the KVM hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization uses the SPICE protocol and VDSM with a RHEL-based centralized management server. It can acquire user and group information from an Active Directory or FreeIPA domain.
Some of the technologies of Red Hat Virtualization came from Red Hat's acquisition of Qumranet. Other parts derive from oVirt.
Before 2016, up to version 3.x product was named Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Certified by KVM community.
RHV support scheduling policies that defines the logic by which virtual machines are distributed amongst hosts.
RHV support up to 400 hosts in a single cluster and no maximum number of virtual machines. It also support hot plugging virtual CPUs also allows to run unlimited guest machine in comparison with RHEL which is limited to 4 guest machines.
RHV solution is based on two primary software components
Different backup solutions are available including support from Veritas Netbackup since 2019.

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