New release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1: Stakes and Opportunities around new features


Available officially since January 2nd, 2012, this new release aims to be the first major update for enterprise virtualization platform RHEV 3.0.
Henceforth, new features in RHEV 3.1 include:

  • Increased hypervisor support for the latest Intel & AMD x86 processors
  • RHEV henceforth support up to 160 logical CPUs and  up to 2 terabytes of memory
  • Supports creation of live snapshots and clones of running virtual machines
  • Integrated dashboard that provides wide range of reports at the datacenter, cluster, host, and virtual-machine level
  • Python SDK (software development kit) to help write scripts
  • And, in technical preview mode supports storage migration for virtual machines, in which the backup disk image of a running VM can be moved to different storage devices without stopping the running virtual machine etc.
We also learn that, RHEV 3.1 is validated and offered on all supported Dell PowerEdge servers including the latest Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers. 
In addition, Dell OpenManage Server Administrator is not supported on RHEV 3 hypervisors. For customers looking for OpenManage Server Administrator support in RHEV 3 environment, RHEL 6.3 can be used as a host.

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