Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Montana Linux)

Scott Dowdle interviews Red Hat's Andy Cathrow and Jim Brennan about the company's latest Enterprise Virtualization technology. "ML: In the year between the merger with Qumranet and the release of RHEV for Servers, what were the primary changes made to the product? AC: We made many, significant changes. A quick, but not complete list includes: * SAN support - including iSCSI and Fiber channel (previously NFS only) * Multipath I/O * NIC bonding (host) * Multiple nics (guest) * VLANs * High availability * System scheduler (distribution policies, scheduling VMS) * Power Saver * Support for large hosts 96 cores, 1TB RAM * Support for large guests 16 cores, 256GB RAM * Support for managing hosts - including configuration files and software updates".

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