Run KVM virtual machines on hardware with real performance

There’s nothing worse than trying to run a workload on a hardware-bottlenecked system. Release the power of KVM with IBM System x servers.

You can run virtualization host software on just about any kind of hardware. But why would you if you’re an existing Red Hat customer? Almost a year ago, I wrote, “Big Blue plus Red Hat plus Private Cloud equals Purple Reign?,” which was an analysis of the team-up between Red Hat and IBM to create a new public cloud offering that I called, Purple Reign. Now, there’s something new on the horizon for these two crazy kids playing in the data center virtual space: Red Hat Virtualization 3.0 on IBM System x servers. Other than a marketing blitz, what’s the purpose behind this new software/hardware mixture? If you said, “Performance,” you win.

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