Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops: Advanced desktop virtualization management

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Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops has a feature-rich desktop virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for physical host servers, virtual machine (VM) guests, and everything in between.

Simplified desktop management

  • Easily create desktop templates according to the specific needs of particular users or groups within the organization.
  • Reduce or even eliminate desk-side visits and support.
  • Gain visibility into the current status of desktop VMs, hosts, storage, network, and more, with built-in monitoring and reporting tools.
  • Simplify desktop management with an intuitive, search-driven user interface.
  • Use a single, centralized management console to manage both server and desktop VMs.
  • Rapidly provision new desktop environments to users within minutes, instead of days or longer.

Leverage a powerful suite of features and utilities from a centralized, intuitive interface

  • Live migration: Allows VMs to be moved from one host to another while running with zero downtime and no effect on performance.
  • Maintenance manager: Allows hosts to be upgraded and maintained while VMs are running.
  • Image manager: Manage templates and snapshots to quickly build new VMs from standard configurations. 
  • Thin provisioning: Provision new virtual desktops based on master templates, saving up to 90% storage capacity.
  • Snapshots: Capture the state of a virtual desktop, enabling rapid restoration of desktop environments in the case of an end-point hardware failure.
  • System scheduler: Create policies to automatically load-balance desktop VMs across multiple hosts to load-balance workloads. 
  • Power saver: Lets the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager consolidate VMs onto a smaller number of hosts during non-peak hours and power down unneeded hosts.
  • Desktop pooling: Create groups of virtual desktops that can be accessed on demand by end users, simplifying the desktop-provisioning process and increasing access flexibility. 
  • Flexible storage: Store virtual desktop images and data using either Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), or Network File System (NFS).

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