A Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment consists of:
- Virtual machine hosts using the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
- Agents and tools running on hosts including VDSM, QEMU, and libvirt. These tools provide local management for virtual machines, networks and storage.
- The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager; a centralized management platform for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. It provides a graphical interface where you can view, provision and manage resources.
- Storage domains to hold virtual resources like virtual machines, templates, ISOs.
- A database to track the state of and changes to the environment.
- Access to an external Directory Server to provide users and authentication.
- Networking to link the environment together. This includes physical network links, and logical networks.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization System Components
The Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization version 3.5 Beta environment consists of one or more hosts
(either Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 or 7 hosts or Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor 6.5 or 7 hosts) and at least one Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager.
Hosts run virtual machines
using KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization technology.
The Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager runs on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 server and
provides interfaces for controlling the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
environment. It manages virtual machine and storage provisioning, connection
protocols, user sessions, virtual machine images, and high availability virtual
machines.
The Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager is accessed through the Administration Portal using a web
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