Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager delivers a centralized management systems to administer and control all aspects of a virtualized infrastructure from host and guest management through to storage management and high availability.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) manager provides a rich user interface that allows an administrator to manage their virtual infrastructure from a web browser allowing even the most advanced configurations such as network bonding and VLANs to be centrally managed from a graphical console.

RHEV manager manages both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors (RHEV-H) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 hosts with the KVM hypervisor, delivering leading performance and scalability for virtual machines on a stable and secure platform trusted by millions of organizations
around the world for their most mission-critical workloads

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers 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 reduce power consumption on unused hosts.

Maintenance Manager: Perform maintenance on hosts without guest downtime. Upgrade hypervisors directly from management system.
Image Manager: Create new virtual machines based on templates. Use snapshots to create point-in-time image of virtual machines.

Monitoring: Real time monitoring of virtual machines, host systems and storage. Alerts and notifications.

Security: Role based access control allowing fine grained access control and the creation of customized roles and responsibilities. Detailed audit trails covering GUI and API access. Integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

Thin Provisioning : For improved storage utilization

API: API for command line management and automation

Scalability: Manage large virtual infrastructure with scalable management platform including search driven user interface.

Centralized Host management: Manage all aspects of host configuration including network configuration, bonding, VLANs and storage. Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts.