Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 Gains New SDN, High-Performance Features

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 18, 2018

The RHV update benefits from a new user interface that was developed in the open-source PatternFly project. There are also improved metrics and logging capabilities, as well as new disaster recovery features. And networking gets a boost with the inclusion of the Open Virtual Network (OVN) software-defined networking (SDN) technology. The RHV update comes a week after the Red Hat Summit, where a core focus was on the company’s OpenShift Kubernetes container orchestration platform.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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