Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) vs Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) is easy to set up from both an IT perspective and a user perspective. Being a cloud-based virtual desktop, you have all your data, programs. and workflows accessible from anywhere with a simple download and sign-in. IT management is just as easy. Security, network, permissions, they're all easy to control from Amazon WorkSpaces.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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I believe it's an excellent solution for any scenario which requires virtualization. The only scenario where it might not be the best solution would be in building out a cloud infrastructure - you could certainly integrate RHEV for something like that but I think that either OpenStack or CloudStack might be a better solution for building cloud environments.

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Matthew J. Fitzpatrick

President/CEO

TravelersInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI)

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Virtual machine automated provisioning

Management console

Live virtual machine backup

Live virtual machine migration

Hypervisor-level security

Pros

Amazon WorkSpaces provides us with total control over our employee/consultant workstations.
We can spin up new workstations in minutes.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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RHEV can acquire user and group information from an Active Directory service without a great deal of confusing configuration.
RHEV management is browser-based and can be accessed from any platform.
Online Snapshot capability, provides a better redundancy than vsphere.

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Ian Neveu

Cloud Services Engineer

Entrust DatacardInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

At the moment, I have no complaints about this service. I've used other VM software for years, and this is by far the simplest and easiest I've tried.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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Ran into a regression when updating firmware for IGEL
Desktop froze and became non responsive on a few occasions.
Server crashed and took down all the clients in the Thin setup.

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Emile Swarts

Developer

Made TechComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) 9.0

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AWS support in general is pretty good, and WorkSpaces is no exception. We haven't had too much need for support but on the occasion we have, they've been quick to respond and helpful. Our issues have been resolved rapidly.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon WorkSpaces has been a simpler experience for me. I've used multiple versions of VMware (hosted and installed) and each has their positives and negatives. Amazon WorkSpaces just works. I've never had performance issues, persistence issues, or really any issues with it.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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VMware ESXi is a more mature technology, as it has been around for a longer period of time. However, automating ESXi installations requires hacking OEM media and an intense amount of knowledge of how ESXi operates under the hood. The WebUI and associated functionality for ESXi is more stable than RHEV, however ESXi does not support open-source community projects such as Gluster, Cinder, or Glance natively and relies on HW RAID, NAS, or SAN to achieve high availability. Additionally ESXi licenses tend to be more expensive than using RHEV or it's freely available sibling oVirt.

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Charles Inglese

Senior System Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Managing VMs is easier than before.
AWS pricing is quite competitive.

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Employee in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 51-200 employees

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Replacement costs are high for employee PC hardware and such a product has helped cut down costs and will continue to do so once deployed across more departments
Increased availability and manageability

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) Editions & Modules

Edition

Starting Price	$21.00¹
Maximum Price	$140.00¹

Per Month

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	$999.00¹
Premium	$1,499.00¹

Per Year Per Hypervisor

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Rating Summary

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI)

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI)

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Amazon WorkSpaces (VDI) vs Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)