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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Forrest Stroud
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:53 am

A desktop and server virtualization platform from Red Hat that is based on the KVM hypervisor as well as the company s Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server operating system.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV, provides a RHEL-based centralized management server with a web-based interface for managing virtual machines (VMs) called the RHEV Manager. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based on open standards and works with Linux and Windows, as well as enterprise applications like SAP, SAS and Oracle.