Red Hat announced their "Virtualization Experience" to the world on Wednesday in a move that puts them in to battle with the likes of VMware and Citrix to provide an enterprise class virtualisation platform.

RHEV 3.0 boasts greater memory and CPU scalability with support for up to 160 cores and 2TB of addressable memory, with partitions capable of spanning 64 virtual cores and 512GB of virtual memory. RHEV 3.0 also supports vhost-net, which moves the network stack in to the Linux kernel, boosting network throughput and lowering latency.

All in all, Red Hat's offering looks impressive and may just be compelling enough for stalwarts to move away from the current industry 'standard' offerings.

We will be testing this new release in the near future to see if it lives up to it's promises...

For the full 'The Register' article follow this link: Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0