Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is an x86 virtualization product developed by Red Hat,^[2] and is based on the KVM hypervisor.^[3] Red Hat Virtualization uses the SPICE protocol and VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) with a RHEL-based centralized management server.^[4][5] The platform can access user and group information from either an Active Directory or FreeIPA domain which enables it to allocate resources effectively based on permissions.^[6] Built for use in enterprise datacenters, RHV can support up to 400 hosts in a single cluster and no upper limit on the total number of hosts it can support.^[7] Development of RHV has ceased and as of August 2020 the product is now only receiving maintenance updates, with extended life phase updates provided until 2026.^[8] The successor to RHV is Red Hat's OpenShift container platform.^[9]

Red Hat Virtualization

Developer(s)	Red Hat, Inc.
Initial release	November 3, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11-03)[1]
Stable release	4.4 / August 4, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-08-04)
Written in	Java, JSP
Platform	x64-compatible
Successor	OpenShift
Type	Hypervisor
Website	www.redhat.com/en/technologies/virtualization/enterprise-virtualization