RHV Host images now also include tcpdump, screen.Ability to sparcify thinly provisioned disks when VM is shut down.VMs with SR-IOV can now be live-migrated.Hot unplug CPUs (limited to CPUs that were previously hot plugged).
Since then the feature list compared to other hyper-visors has improved Through the last twelve years what is now RHV has gone through a number of releases with the current 4.x version released as Red Hat Linux in 2016. Red Hat Virtualization is an enterprise virtualization platform that supports key virtualization workloads including resource-intensive and critical applications, built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and KVM and fully supported by Red Hat. That was then… now is now, and while its indisputable that VMware dominates the hyper-visor enterprise and service provider markets, it has become clear to me that there is a strong appetite for KVM based hyper-visor deployments led by RHV built upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Too many caveats meaning too much overhead compared to VMware and even Hyper-V back then. I remember trying to setup a KVM hosting platform back around 2010, but it just wasn’t suitable at the time. With that I thought it be interesting to give some initial thoughts around RHV and how it’s positioned today.
There isn’t too much more info that we can share at the moment, but suffice to say this supportability has been must requested over the past twelve to eighteen months. We will take advantage of Change Block Tracking needed for optimized, backup and recovery of RHV. While this might not be the final product name, the intent and direction of this announcement means that we will soon add supportability for a fourth hyper-visor meaning that we will cover VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and RHV. At VeeamON 2021 we made a significant new product announcement which was the unveiling of Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization.