Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Enterprise virtualization with oVirt

oVirt is one of the open-source virtualization management platforms available and it was founded by Red Hat as a community project. As discussed, virtualization is generally one of the fundamental parts of most cloud environments, and we will look into some of the features of one of the virtualization applications.

There are four main components of a typical setup of virtualization software used for large-scale applications:

• Virtualization engine: The virtualization engine is responsible for deployment, monitoring followed by start and stop, the creation of virtual machines along with configuration related to storage, network, and many more.
• Hosts and guests: Hosts are basically physical hardware on which ...