Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Montana Linux) [LWN.net]

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

Posted Nov 19, 2009 19:47 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link] (7 responses)

So, they're going from a Microsoft Windows-based (IIS, SQL Server etc.)-only management platform to a JBoss-based one.

Thanks, but no thanks.

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

Posted Nov 19, 2009 21:58 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (5 responses)

What?

They said (paraphrasing):

"Yes we just moved our premier enterprise platform for managing massive
amounts of virtualized machines from a proprietary Windows-based software
stack to a completely cross-platform open source one"

And your reply amounts to:

"So? I couldn't give a shit."

Seems like a good move to me.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Personally I am more interested in SPICE then anything else...

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

Posted Nov 19, 2009 22:21 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link] (4 responses)

Oh you misunderstood.

Having the biggest commercial Linux vendor ship a product with a closed-source Microsoft-based management interface is bad, clearly.

What I'm saying is that a Java/JBoss-based interface for system administration doesn't sound ideal to me either, even if it is cross-platform and open-source.

I think they've gone too enterprise-y to see the point...

[oh and the irony is that, afaik, their current product is based on .NET technologies; if they haven't been so anti-Mono, they would probably have been able to make it cross platform without rewriting it from scratch...]

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

Posted Nov 19, 2009 22:53 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

It think it would be fairer to say that Red Hat is anti-patent liability exposure and Mono is viewed as a poor liability risk. I think the political landscape concerning Mono would look very different today if spectre of software patent liability didn't exist.

And in that light, I think its very important for customers and potential customers who are interested in the SPICE protocals to put pressure on Red Hat to get the patents that cover SPICE into the OIN portfolio.

-jef

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

Posted Nov 20, 2009 3:05 UTC (Fri) by holstein (guest, #6122) [Link] (1 responses)

What is also funny is that the virtualization tools at et.redhat.com are mostly Ruby/RoR based.

Why are they not just putting more ressources into libvirt, oVirt, Deltacloud and al.?

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

Posted Nov 20, 2009 4:17 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

It is not, either or, it is both. These tools serve a different purpose. The management tool was part of Qumranet acquisition.

Nothing wrong with it

Posted Nov 21, 2009 22:33 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

JBoss is actually a very nice server. You can deploy an enterprise n-layered application based on EJBs and JSF, but you can also put together a few quick-and-dirty JSP pages. Or an intermediate thing with Spring or Struts. The nice thing is that it scales very well through the whole spectrum.

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

Posted Nov 19, 2009 23:22 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

Well, they own JBOSS so they are eating their own dogfood, eh?