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Title: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization - KVM-based infrastructure services at BNL

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1018673

Over the past 18 months, BNL has moved a large percentage of its Linux-based servers and services into a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment. This presentation will address our approach to virtualization, critical decision points, and a discussion of our implementation. Specific topics will include an overview of hardware and software requirements, networking, and storage; discussion of the decision of Red Hat solution over competing products (VMWare, Xen, etc); details on some of the features of RHEV - both current and on their roadmap; Review of performance and reliability gains since deployment completion; path forward for RHEV at BNL and caveats and potential problems.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE - OFFICE OF SCIENCE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1018673
Report Number(s):
BNL-95296-2011-CP; YN0100000; TRN: US201114%%281
Resource Relation:
Conference: National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Summit 2011; Vail, Colorado; 20110614 through 20110617
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English