Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is an
x86 virtualization product developed by
Red Hat
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, and is based on the
KVM hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization uses the
SPICE protocol and
VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) with a
RHEL-based centralized management server. The platform can access user and group information from either an
Active Directory or
FreeIPA domain
Domain may refer to:
Mathematics
*Domain of a function, the set of input values for which the (total) function is defined
**Domain of definition of a partial function
**Natural domain of a partial function
**Domain of holomorphy of a function
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which enables it to allocate resources effectively based on permissions. 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. 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. The successor to RHV is Red Hat's
OpenShift container platform.
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Virtualization software for Linux