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Central Management
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control in addition to Oracle VM Manager for Central Management. OEM12c Cloud Control extends Oracle VM Manager with Cloud Capabilities. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50245_01/E50250/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e28814/cloud_iaas_setup.htm#CEGFJIHI
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Third-party plug-in framework
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RHV focuses on managing the virtual infrastructure and can also manage Red Hat Gluster Storage nodes.
Also RHV-M integrates with 3rd party applications including:
- BMC connector for RHV-M REST API to collect data for managing RHV boxes without having to install an agent.
- HP OneView for Red Hat Virtualization (OVRHV) UI plug-in that that allows you to seamlessly manage your HP ProLiant infrastructure from within RHV Manager and provides actionable, valuable insight on underlying HP hardware (HP Insight Control plug-in is also available).
- Veritas Storage Foundation that delivers storage Quality of Service (QoS) at the application level and maximizes your storage efficiency, availability and performance across operating systems. This includes Veritas Cluster Server provides automated disaster recovery functionality to keep applications up and running. Cluster Server enables application specific fail-over and significantly reduces recovery time by eliminating the need to restart applications in case of a failure.
- Tenable Network Securitys Nessus Audit for RHV-M which queries the RHV API and reports that information within a Nessus report.
- Ansible RHV module that allows you to create new instances, either from scratch or an image, in addition to deleting or stopping instances on the RHV platform.
- (NEW) External Partner Network API - allows third party SDN providers to integrate with RHV.
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Virtual and Physical
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control to provision and manage Virtual Guests, Oracle VM Hosts and Physical Servers. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/em.121/e27046/host_overview.htm#CEGEBEBI
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Yes
RHV offers the choice to integrate with many LDAP servers (Microsoft Active Directory, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Enterprise IPA, OpenLDAP, iPlanet Directory Server and more) with support for simple or Kerberos based authentication, centrally managed identity, single sign-on services, high availability directory services.
RHV also provides complete solution for users/groups management using PostgreSQL database as a backend, which can be used in RHV the same way users/groups from LDAP.
RHV provides a range of pre-configured or default roles, from the Superuser or system administration of the platform, to an end user with permissions to access a single virtual machine only. Additional roles can be added and customized to suit the end user environment.
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RBAC / AD-Integration
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control to provide RBAC/ AD-Integration or LDAP-compliant director server. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e36415/sec_features.htm#sthref70 and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e36415/sec_features.htm#CJADDBGA
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No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: CloudForms)
No - RHV exclusively manages Red Hat based environments.
With Red Hat CloudForms users can manage multiple hypervisor vendors and reduce training costs to switch over to RHV. Details here: http://red.ht/I8JG3E (additional cost, not included in RHV subscription)
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Cross-Vendor Mgmt
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No
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Yes (RHV-M, Power User Portal)
Yes, RHV-M is Java based and is accessed through a web browser GUI, RESTful API with session support, Linux CLI, Python SDK, Java SDK.
RHV also offers a Power User Portal, a web-based access portal for user (Red Hat positions it as an entry-level Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) user portal). It allows users to: Create, edit and remove virtual machines, Manage virtual disks and network interfaces, Assign user permissions to virtual machines, Create and use templates to rapidly deploy virtual machines, Monitor resource usage and high-severity events, Create and use snapshots to restore virtual machines to a previous state.
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Browser Based Mgmt
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Both Oracle VM Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control are HTML Browser Based Mgmt. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50245_01/E50250/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e28814/cloud_iaas_setup.htm#CEGFJIHI
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Yes - Enhanced Web Client (with enhanced SSO), No BDE
No vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) supported with this edition!
vSphere 5 introduced a web based (Adobe Flex based) vSphere client interface which makes the access to vCenter platform-independent.
VMware positioned the web client as the core management interface since vSphere 5.1 - largely matching and in many cases superseding functionality of the legacy client (many new features will only be accessible through the web client). If you e.g. want to create one of the new large 62TB vmdks, you can only do that from the web client.
vSphere 5.5. maintains both the legacy and web client (confirming continued use of the legacy client) and has further enhanced the capabilities of the web client itself, as well as the Single Sign On that enables central authentication.
vSphere 5.5 web client enhancements:
- full client support for Mac OS X
- Drag and drop (e.g. drag and drop vm on to hosts)
- new filters and dynamically updated object lists based on those filters
- new recent-items navigation aid
The initial vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) has been improved in 5.5:
- Simplified deployment (single installation model for customers of all sizes)
- Enhanced Microsoft Active Directory integration - The addition of native Active Directory support enables cross-domain authentication with one- and two-way trusts common in multi-domain environments.
- Architecture - Built from the ground up, this architecture removes the requirement of a database and now delivers a multi-master authentication solution with built-in replication and support for multiple tenants.
vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) is a new addition in vSphere 5.5 for vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Editions. BDE is available as a plug-in for the vSphere Web Client.
BDE is a tool that enables administrators to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters on vSphere. It simplifies the provisioning of the infrastructure and software services required for multi-node Hadoop clusters.
It performs the following functions on the virtual Hadoop clusters it manages:
- Creates, deletes, starts, stops and resizes clusters
- Controls resource usage of Hadoop clusters
- Specifies physical server topology information
- Manages the Hadoop distributions available to BDE users
- Automatically scales clusters based on available resources and in response to other workloads on the vSphere cluster
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Yes (extended functionality with CloudForms - Fee-Based Add On)
RHV has comprehensive data warehouse with a stable API.
It provides a system monitoring dashboard in the UI to monitor the system in these different levels.
Red Hat Virtualization includes a deeper integration with Red Hat Satellite that allows the querying of errata information for the RHV-Manager’s operating system and provides a complete view into critical updates for the infrastructure lifecycle management. The release also includes the ability to modify the health status of Host, Storage Domain, or Virtual Machine objects based on external factors such as hardware failure or OS monitoring alerts. Users can quickly perform an impact analysis of their environment in the event an object beyond RHV’s normal visibility is at risk of failure.
CloudForms offers cloud and virtualization operations management advance capabilities.
Features of the cloud and virtualization operations management capabilities:
- delivering IaaS with self-service
- service catalogs, automated provisioning and life cycle management
- monitoring and optimization of infrastructure resources and workloads
- metering, resource quotas, and chargeback
- proactive management, advanced decision support, and intelligent automation through predictive analytics
- provides visibility and reporting for governance, compliance, and management insight
- Enforces enterprise policies in real-time, ensuring cloud security, reliability, and availability
- IT process, task, and event automation.
Note that CloudForms is an additional Fee-Based offering not covered by the RHV subscription.
Details here: www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/cloudforms
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Adv. Operation Management
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control for Advanced Operation Management. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50245_01/E50250/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e28814/cloud_iaas_setup.htm#CEGFJIHI
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Yes
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Yes, live migration is fully supported with unlimited concurrent migrations (depending only on available resources on other hosts and network speed). RHV 4.0 adds abilities to use compression and auto-convergence to complete migration of heavier workloads faster.
(NEW) Advanced Live Migration Policies - virtualization admistrator can tune the migration policy, greatly reducing both the time live migration time as well as the actual cutover time.
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Updates and Backup |
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Hypervisor Upgrades
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Yes
Oracle VM provides the capability to upgrade the OVM Servers by the usage of Oracle VM Manager or Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control with Zero Downtime, Migrating (Live) the VMs to other Hosts in the Cluster/Server Pool. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50245_01/index.html
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Yes (Red Hat Network)
Updates to the virtual machines are typically performed as in the physical environment. For Red Hat virtual machines updates can be downloaded from the Red Hat Network. For Windows virtual machines you would apply the relevant MS update mechanisms. There is no specific integrated function in RHV-M to update virtual machines or templates.
Centralized patching mechanism for Red Hat machines is possible via Satellite. RHV also shows errata information on updates for RHEL hosts and guests OS.
This is a Fee-based Add-On; Details - http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/satellite
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Yes
Oracle provides Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control for Linux Patching. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/em.121/e27046/pat_linux_patch.htm#BABCJAGH
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Yes; Including RAM
Live VM snapshot with or without memory and live removal of snapshots is supported.
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Yes - Hot Clones
Oracle provides the ability to execute Hot Clones A.K.A Snapshots. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50245_01/index.html
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Yes
There is a API set for third-party tools that offer backup, restore, and replication.
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Backup Integration API
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Yes
Is possible to perform classic backup using agents in the guests and due to the REST API for both OVM Manager and EM12c Cloud Control any time soon there will be integration on the Hypervisor Level
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