Red Hat will officially launch its virtualization portfolio at the beginning of September. The information was confirmed yesterday by Franz Meyer, Red Hat’s director for Southern Europe during a phone interview :  The solution should be GA (for General Availability, note) on September 1 “, he explained. Red Hat’s virtualization solutions are currently undergoing a round of private beta.
Since it bought Qumranet, Red Hat as made a strategic decision to use KVM as its core virtualization technology. KVM is at the heart of Red Hat Entreprise Linux 5.4 and of RHEV-H (its stand alone hypervisor). To round-up its offering, Red hat will also launch a suite of administration tools. Their perimeter is still unknown (VM Administration and provisioning, Lab Management, Stage Management, High availability, Fault tolerance, etc ?). To get a full picture of Red Hat Virtualization portfolio, we’ll have to wait a little more
BY the way, VMWorld 2009, VMware’s virtualization conference, will be held in San Francisco between August 31 and September 3. I Guess Red Hat’s Launch Date was carefully planned. Which should make VMworld 2009 all the more interesting….

Red Hat will officially launch its virtualization portfolio at the beginning of September. The information was confirmed yesterday by Franz Meyer, Red Hat’s director for Southern Europe during a phone interview :  The solution should GA (for General Availability, note) on September 1 “, he explained. Red Hat’s virtualization solutions are currently undergoing a round of private beta.

Since it bought Qumranet, Red Hat as made a strategic decision to use KVM as its core virtualization technology. KVM is at the heart of Red Hat Entreprise Linux 5.4 (its next generation Linux Distribution) and of RHEV-H (its stand alone hypervisor).

To round-up its offering, Red hat will also launch a suite of administration tools. The exact perimeter of this suite is still unknown (VM Administration and provisioning, Lab Management, Stage Management, High availability, Fault tolerance, etc ?). To get a full picture of Red Hat Virtualization portfolio, we’ll have to wait a little more

By the way, VMWorld 2009, VMware’s virtualization conference, will be held in San Francisco between August 31 and September 3. I Guess Red Hat’s Launch Date was carefully planned. Which should make VMworld 2009 all the more interesting….

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