Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is an x86

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product developed by Red Hat, and is based on the KVM

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. Red Hat Virtualization uses the

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protocol and VDSM (Virtual Desktop Server Manager) with a

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-based centralized management server. The platform can access user and group information from either an

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FreeIPA FreeIPA is a free and open source identity management system. FreeIPA is the upstream open-source project foRed Hat Identity Management Overview FreeIPA aims to provide a centrally managed Identity, Policy, and Audit (IPA) system. It uses ...

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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 OpenShift is a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. Its flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform — a hybrid cloud platform as a service built around Linux containers orchestrated and managed by Kuber ...

container platform.

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* {{Red Hat Red Hat software Virtualization Virtualization software for Linux