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Third-party plug-in framework
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RHV focuses on managing the virtual infrastructure and can also manage RHSS.
Also, RHV-M 3.3 (and onwards) 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).
- NetApp Virtual Console enables rapid cloning of NetApp virtual machines, and allows NFS storage discovery, provisioning and modification from within Red Hat Virtualization Manager.
- Symantec 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 Symantec 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.
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control in addition to Oracle VM Manager for Central Management. OEM13c Cloud Control extends Oracle VM Manager with Cloud Capabilities. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Yes (AD and IPA)
RHV offers the choice to either integrate with Microsoft Active Directory or use Red Hat IPA (based upon open technologies and standards) with support for LDAP and Kerberos, centrally managed identity, single sign-on services, high availability directory services or Red Hat Directory Services (RHDS).
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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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to provision and manage Virtual Guests, Oracle VM Hosts and Physical Servers. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-E1076C88-A0FE-4F2C-AD58-1E4A3BA32757.htm
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No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: CloudForms)
No - RHV exclusively manages Red Hat based environments.
Yes with Red Hat CloudForms - users can manage multiple hypervisor vendors. Details here: http://red.ht/I8JG3E (additional cost, not included in RHV subscription)
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to provide RBAC/ AD-Integration or LDAP-compliant director server. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMSEC/GUID-5DD3B11A-1159-40BD-8AEB-41EDE664AB12.htm#EMSEC13094 and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMSEC/GUID-5DD3B11A-1159-40BD-8AEB-41EDE664AB12.htm#EMSEC12846
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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 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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Yes - Adding 3rd Party Plug-in from Bluemedora Partner
Classified as limited because it is not a default feature and 3rd party plugin is needed. More info on: http://www.bluemedora.com/products/plugin-for-vmware/
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Yes (extended functionality with CloudForms - Fee-Based Add On)
RHV has comprehensive data warehouse with a stable API and reports package that provides a suite of pre-configured reports that enable you to monitor and analyse the system at data center, cluster and host levels.
It also provides dashboards in the UI to monitor the system in these different levels.
CloudForms - offers cloud and virtualization operations management advance capabilities:
Note that CloudForms is an additional Fee-Based offering not covered by the RHV subscription!
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.
Details here: www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/cloudforms
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Both Oracle VM Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control are HTML Browser Based Mgmt. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Adv. Operation Management
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Yes (Live Migration - unlimited concurrent migrations, 3 by default)
Yes, live migration is fully supported with unlimited concurrent migrations (depending only on available resources on other hosts and network speed). By default limited to 3 concurrent outgoing migrations and each live migration event is limited to a maximum transfer speed of 32 MiBps.
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control for Advanced Operation Management. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Yes (Red Hat Network)
Updates to the virtual machines are typically performed as in the physical environment, providing only limited capabilities. 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.
This is a Fee-based Add-On; Details - http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/satellite
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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 13c 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/E64076_01/
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Yes; Including RAM
RHV 3.1 introduced the new ability to take Live Snapshots of VMs and has an enhanced Snapshot management interface (maintained with 3.3).
New in RHV 3.3: Snapshots now include the state of a virtual machines memory as well as disk. In addition a new Create Snapshot button has been added to the action panel of the Virtual Machines tab, and as a context menu item when a virtual machine is selected.
New in RHV 3.4: The admin portal now allows to preview, commit and manage snapshots of individual disks within a VM.
New in RHV 3.5: Ability to Live Merge snapshots, allowing to remove intermediate snapshots while VM is running
Taking a snapshot in RHV involves the following possible actions:
- Creation (obviously)
- Previews (involves previewing a snapshot to determine whether or not to restore the system to this snapshot - when it is previewed, a new (COW) preview layer is copied from the snapshot being previewed. The guest interacts with the preview instead of the actual snapshot volume. The preview can then be committed to restore the
guest data to the state captured in the snapshot or alternatively the admin can select Undo to discard the preview layer of the viewed snapshot.
- Deletion (deleting a restoration point that is no longer required)
Notes for Live Snapshots:
- VM with a guest agent that supports quiescing can ensure filesystem consistency across live snapshots. Red Hat Network registered Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests can install the qemu-guest agent to enable quiescing before snapshots (VDSM uses libvirt to communicate with the agent to prepare for a snapshot).
- All live snapshots are attempted with quiescing enabled. If the snapshot command fails because there is no compatible guest agent present, the live snapshot is re-initiated without the use-quiescing flag.
Please note: When a virtual machine is reverted with quiesced filesystems, it boots cleanly with no filesystem check required.
Reverting the previous snapshot using an un-quiesced filesystem however requires a filesystem check on boot.
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Yes
Oracle provides Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control for Linux Patching. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-91D92136-E452-48C6-AD49-3D88E8CC575F.htm#EMLCM11557
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Backup API
From RHV 3.3 there is a API set for third-party tools that offer backup, restore, and replication.
For backup, a snapshot of a virtual machines disk is created then attached to a virtual appliance. For restore, disks are attached to a virtual appliance, the data is restored to the disks, then the disks are attached to a virtual machine.
Tools are from enterprise companies such as Tintri, Acronis, Symantec, etc. From RHV 3.3 there is configuration support for add/edit/delete storage connections to enable multi-pathing, hardware changes, simpler failover to remote sites, and array-based replication.
RHV-M 3.5 fully supports Acronis Backup & Recovery that provides image-based backup, disaster recovery (recover the whole VM) and data protection (recover selected files).
This is a Fee-based Add-On; Details - http://marketplace.redhat.com/RHV/10085-Acronis-Backup-Recovery-11-5-Virtual-Edition-for-RHV-11-5
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Yes - Hot Clones
Oracle provides the ability to execute Hot Clones that works similarly to Snapshots, but ther is no Snapshot Manager. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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There is no integrated backup in RHV Manager.
Use traditional backup methods to protect your virtual machines and hosts (e.g. backup agents for network based backups in individual virtual machines and RHEL hosts). However you can of course export virtual machines and templates onto the export domain (NFS).
Background: Export domains are temporary storage repositories that are used to copy and move images between data centers and RHV environments. They can be used to backup virtual machines. An export domain can be moved between data centers, however, it can only be active in one data center at a time. Support for export storage domains backed by storage on anything other than NFS is being deprecated - new export storage domains must be created on NFS storage.
Additionally a tool for backing up and restoring RHV Manager database and certificates is available.
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Is possible to perform classic backup using agents in the guests but due to the REST API for both OVM Manager and EM13c Cloud Control any time soon there will be integration on the Hypervisor Level
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No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Satellite 6)
RHV-H or RHEL hosts can be installed using traditional methods either interactively (from ISO, USB flash media) or automated (PXE). There is however no integrated capability to deploy RHV centrally (e.g. using deployment templates and custom images) to bare metal hosts using the RHV management (like VMwares auto deploy or SCVMMs bare metal deploy).
This is possible using Satellite 6 using Foreman.
This is a Fee-based Add-On; Details - http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/satellite
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Yes, CloudInit and Glance support - NEW
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In RHV by default, virtual machines created from templates use thin provisioning.
In the context of templates, thin provisioning of vm means copy on write (aka linked clone or difference disk) rather than a growing file system that only takes up the storage space that it actually uses (usually referred to as thin provisioning). All virtual machines based on a given template share the same base image as the template and must remain on the same data domain as the template. Do NOT delete the template if you have created virtual machines in this way from it as the vm depend on the existence of the base image!
You can however specify to deploy the vm from template as clone - which means that a full copy of the vm will be deployed. When selecting to clone you can then select thin (sparse) or pre-allocated provisioning of the full clone. Deploying from template as clone results in independence from the base image but space savings associated with using copy on write approaches are lost.
Important: The image used to create templates for RHV must be generalized e.g. using the Sysprep tool (for Windows) or sys-unconfig (for Linux). This approach is similar to the deployment with e.g. SCVMM (different to VMware, where the generalization and customization of the vm is done on deployment, allowing for a quick, direct conversion of a template to a vm and vice versa). With RHV, changes to the template image require a deployment, applying changes/updates with subsequent generalization, then a conversion back into a template.
While not the same as a classic template, RHV 3.3 introduced support for cloud-init, which facilitates the provisioning of virtual machines by performing the initial setup of networking, SSH keys, timezones, user data injection, and more.
In RHV 3.5 support was added consume (use), export and share images with Glance. Glance image services include discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images.
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to automate Host Deployments (both Oracle VM Servers and Physical/Virtual Oracle Linux Servers). More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-CBC1C903-8541-40BC-A0B2-E5B57F389DE7.htm#EMLCM11421
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No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: CloudForms Deployables)
There is no integrated functionality in RHV that allows you to deploy a multi-vm construct from a single template (like e.g. with vSphere vApp or VMM Service Templates).
Comment: CloudForms (fee based cloud offering) has components called Deployable - defined as an Application deployment definition that contains one or more assemblies and meta-data configuration; this configuration specializes a deployment by qualifying it for a specific targeted infrastructure. A Deployable is essentially made of one or more Assemblies with configuration data. Each Assembly is made of one or more Templates and configuration. Each Template lists the software and configuration data. An Assembly optionally indicates the services that it defines or requires. Some of the configuration data may be defined a the time of instance launch.
See http://red.ht/122cnOE for details.
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Oracle offers the ability to create and deploy both Templates and Virtual Appliances. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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No (native);
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: Satellite)
There is no ability in RHV to capture or centrally apply settings to hosts (or a group of hosts) in order to ensure standard settings on deployment or to check for compliance of hosts with certain settings.
You can add the new Foreman provider in the administration portal, and use the add Hosts window to select a host provided by Foreman on Red Hat Virtualization Manager.
This is a Fee-based Add-On; Details - http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/satellite
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Oracle offers the ability to create and deploy both Templates and Virtual Appliances. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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While RHV supports different types of storage, there is no integrated ability in RHV that allows classification of storage (e.g. by performance or other properties) in order to enable intelligent placement of workloads onto appropriate storage classes.
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Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to automate Host Deployments with a defined baseline and it is also possible to compare configurations between Hosts. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-BC478C2B-A4D9-4855-80A2-4A00D63FC302.htm#EMLCM11613
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Yes (Quota, Devices SLA, CPU Shares)
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RHV 3.5 includes quota support and Service Level Agreement (SLA) for storage I/O bandwidth, network interfaces and CPU QoS\shares:
- Quota provides a way for the Administrator to limit the resource usage in the System. Quota provides the administrator a logic mechanism for managing resources allocation for users and groups in the Data Center.
This mechanism allows the administrator to manage, share and monitor the resources in the Data Center from the engine core point of view.
- vNIC profile allows the user to limit the inbound and outbound network traffic in virtual NIC level.
- CPU profile limits the CPU usage of a virtual machine.
- Disk profile limit the bandwidth usage to allocate the bandwidth in a better way on limited connections.
- CPU shares is a user defined number that represent a relative metric for allocating CPU capacity. It defines how often a virtual machine will get a time slice of a CPU when there is no CPU idle time.
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V2V, P2V & Partners
Whilst there is no integrated capability to perform physical to virtual migrations in RHV itself, Red Hat provide p2v tools to customers to export existing physical machines to a virtual infrastructure whilst ensuring that relevant changes are made to the new guest, e.g. Paravirtualization drivers.
Red Hat also partners with 3rd partys e.g. Acronis to perform v2v and p2v migrations. RHV provides the virt-v2v tool, enabling you to convert and import virtual machines created on other systems such as Xen, KVM and VMware ESX. virt-v2v is available on Red Hat Network (RHN) in the Red Hat Enterprise Virt V2V Tool, details here: http://red.ht/zFpc6i
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