Save Real Money on Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Built-In Open Source Virtulization
Overview
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a fully integrated hypervisor
that renders expensive third-party add-on virtualization
solutions obsolete. Our open source approach to virtualization is more cost-efficient and easier to adopt because our
hypervisor is built right into the operating system. Get better performance and scalability than expensive third party
solutions offer without investing in new hardware or paying
dearly for additional proprietary software licenses.
need it. This kind of flexibility makes many things possible.
Now you can dynamically allocate resources to respond to
business needs, add memory or CPU resources on-the-fly,
scale-up or scale-down resources, and Live Migrate servers
to take advantage of unused resources.
Making Virtualization Valuable
Performance and Scalability
Because Red Hat Enterprise Linux is optimized for virtualization, it yields very high performance. Enterprise Linux
guests typically run 20% TO 100% faster on RHEL because
the operating system is “virtualization aware,” seamlessly
meshing with the hypervisior for increased efficiency with
no timing or synchronization issues. As complexity is eliminated, performance increases.
Red Hat’s open source virtualization is also highly scalable. It can scale from a single CPU server to the largest
multi core machine, and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
a Linux Automation strategy, you can deploy enterprise
workloads across as many enviroments (bare metal, virtual, on-demand clouds, appliances) as you need when you
In many cases, third party proprietary virtualization software costs as much as the hardware it virtualizes. So, if
things are working fine, why do it? It’s hard to justify on a
cost-basis. Red Hat Enterprise Linux makes virtualization
instantly valuable and eliminates the economic barriers to
adopting virtualization.
Most expensive third-party virtualization software a has
very restrictive hardware compatibility list. Often new
hardware must be purchased specifically for running a
particular third-party solution. With Red Hat’s open source
virtualization, you use your existing hardware. Red Hat
Enterise Linux is highly compatible with thousands of certified hardware systems. Leading hardware vendors work
with Red Hat to ensure compatibility, and Red Hat offers
full support for server platforms and infrastructure. There
are no limitations on choice of SAN, NAS or I/O cards.
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And reduced complexity through the use of consistent tools
to deploy and manage your entire infrastructure yields
even more savings.
Flexibility
The open source virtualization technology included with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the most scalable and
flexible virtualization platform available. It allows organizations to virtualize all work loads in any desired environment. Red Hat provides the only platform that gives
customers the flexibility to deploy and manage their applications across all deployment models:
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To take full advantage of virtualization, Red Hat can help
you design a Linux Automation strategy wich will allow
you to deploy, provision and manage all your servers, virtual and physical, from a single management platform,
using consistent, normalized tools and infrastructure. With
these tools, it is easier and far more affordable to create
high-availability clusters that include physical and virtual
machines.
• Standalone servers
• Virtual Machines
• Cloud computing
• Appliances
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