Comments on: Red Hat Hires Novell Veteran for Virtualization Push http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/22/red-hats-hires-novell-veteran-for-virtualization-push/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/22/red-hats-hires-novell-veteran-for-virtualization-push/comment-page-1/#comment-111866 The VAR Guy Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:50:26 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=12368#comment-111866 Tim: The VAR Guy appreciates the fact that you weigh in with some views that are well-organized. Our resident blogger isn't that familiar with the Xen vs KVM debate. But ultimately, it sounds like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be the big springboard for more aggressive RHEV push... -TVG Tim: The VAR Guy appreciates the fact that you weigh in with some views that are well-organized. Our resident blogger isn’t that familiar with the Xen vs KVM debate. But ultimately, it sounds like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be the big springboard for more aggressive RHEV push…
-TVG

]]> By: Tim Wessels http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/22/red-hats-hires-novell-veteran-for-virtualization-push/comment-page-1/#comment-111858 Tim Wessels Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:56:43 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=12368#comment-111858 When Red Hat purchased Qumranet (commercial sponsor of KVM) for $107M a couple of years ago, it meant that Red Hat would eventually abandon support for Xen, which Red Hat has done. KVM is included in most Linux distros. Novell supports KVM because Novell wants to have SLES run as a good guest virtual machine everywhere...ESX/ESXi, Xen, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and KVM. The problem for Red Hat will be finding virtualization customers interested in using KVM beyond their existing customer base. This is why Mr. Pereau was brought on board. Red Hat's existing customers probably constitute those most willing to give KVM a trial. However, I think it will be a very tough sell to get anyone who is not a Red Hat customer seriously interested in RHEV until the management tools are close to what VMware offers its customers. And from what I understand today, they aren't there yet. When Red Hat purchased Qumranet (commercial sponsor of KVM) for $107M a couple of years ago, it meant that Red Hat would eventually abandon support for Xen, which Red Hat has done. KVM is included in most Linux distros. Novell supports KVM because Novell wants to have SLES run as a good guest virtual machine everywhere…ESX/ESXi, Xen, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and KVM.

The problem for Red Hat will be finding virtualization customers interested in using KVM beyond their existing customer base. This is why Mr. Pereau was brought on board. Red Hat’s existing customers probably constitute those most willing to give KVM a trial. However, I think it will be a very tough sell to get anyone who is not a Red Hat customer seriously interested in RHEV until the management tools are close to what VMware offers its customers. And from what I understand today, they aren’t there yet.

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