Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers: Performance and scalability

Virtualize even the most demanding application workloads

Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization for Servers allows even the most demanding application workloads to be virtualized with features including:

  • Support for the latest Intel Xeon and AMD server chipsets for superior consolidation and virtual machine (VM) performance.
  • Top scores in the SPECvirt_2010 virtualization benchmark, including the top performance scores overall and the highest number of performant VMs running on a single hypervisor.
  • Up to between 95% and 140% performance relative to bare metal for real-world enterprise workloads.
  • More than 1 million messages per second on a single server with low latency.
  • Consolidation ratios of more than 400 VMs with enterprise workloads running on a single server.

With unparalleled performance and scalability, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers can:

  • Exceed bare-metal performance. Server deployments provide scalable enterprise application workloads with up to 95% or more of the bare-metal performance of a single server. Achieve higher-than-bare-metal performance for applications that aren't optimized or engineered to scale to today's high number of cores and memory.
  • Provide high I/O and low latency. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has achieved over 1 million messages per second on a single virtual server, robust Microsoft Exchange performance, and high I/O throughout in Oracle database workloads.
  • Consolidate to fewer physical servers. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can consolidate higher numbers of functional enterprise workloads on a single physical server.

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers and your enterprise applications: