Desktop Virtualization Coming To A Desk Near You
Red Hat, a company globally known for pushing the open source movement and the Enterprise Linux operating system, recently revised its virtualization solution, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. The latest update, version 2.2, now contains support for desktop virtualization, allowing users to execute their own virtualized desktop environment.
Andrew Cathrow, a senior product marketing manager at Red Hat stated, “It will allow you to deploy a RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] desktop, or Windows XP, or Windows 7, on a secure high-performance hypervisor platform. By using a VDI, you are moving the [operating system] from the end user's device into the data center, where it is easier to manage and maintain.”
Looking closer at Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, it contains several applications working seamlessly to bring virtualization to an enterprise infrastructure. Arriving with a management interface, the hypervisor Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, a protocol for Independent Computing Environments with the capability of producing remote desktop rendering, and a connection broker giving users a Web portal to log in and retrieve their desktops from a client machine, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution will host both server and desktop versions from the same package.
One huge advantage of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization strategy includes the ability to import virtual machines from other vendor platforms, such as Microsoft, VMware and Citrix. Using the Open Virtualization Format, a standard used for virtual machines and image creation, customers need not worry about glitches due to cross pollination of vendor applications. The Enterprise Virtualization platform also has conversion capabilities to turn other vendor virtual machines created in Enterprise Linux into kernel based virtual machines. As a nice addition, data warehousing is possible. Users can monitor virtual machine performance and ship the data into SQL based business intelligence utilities. With an increased maximum virtual machine size, larger enterprise solution can run within one virtual machine instead of several images.
Red Hat is moving its strategy forward in order to achieve market share. In an interview with IDG News Service, CEO Jim Whitehurst said, "Essentially, if you're running RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), the hypervisor is free. And our management suite is dramatically lower-cost than our competitors."
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