With the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its integrated virtualization capabilities new and exciting opportunities are available to leverage the new features in IT deployments. Virtualization has the promise of changing everything (eventually) and change IT environments in many ways to make them more adaptive to change and business requirements. Xen as the underlying virtualization technology integrated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will enable customers to manage their datacenters in new ways, it provides new opportunities for deployment, consolidation and provisioning which go beyond the traditional IT processes implemented today. This session will provide an overview of the capabilities and features RHEL5 delivers as an enterprise virtualization platform, it will also provide thoughts and examples on how to leverage these new features in a customer environment. - Deployment models and thoughts available with RHEL5 - QA, Test and Development environments - New HA models and implementations - Ease of disaster recovery and business continuity - New deployment models and ideas - Streamline updates and building a zero-downtime environment - Architect and deploy On-Demand infrastructures - Forward looking opportunities leveraging RHEL5's virtualization capabilities - Building Virtual Appliances and applications - Building the foundation for an agile datacenter environment and computing cloud