Azure Stack HCI vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Stack HCI
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions via Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI provides a variety of preferred hardware solutions for building a hybrid cloud infrastructure, allowing the user to run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.
$29
per month
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.
$999
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Pricing
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Developer
$29.00
per month
Standard
$100.00
per month
Professional Direct
$1000.00
per month
Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Features
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Azure Stack HCI
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Ratings
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
7.7
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
6.6
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Stack HCIRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
It will be effective for an organization that is planning to deploy the application on the cloud and as well as on-premise. Organizations planning to work on hybrid-based can go for it blindly If looking for security it's an ultimate solution, being it is hybrid-based security is well enhanced.
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Discontinued Products
RHEV is well suited for organizations that need a cost-effective and flexible solution for their environment. As its vendor-independent software, easily install on any type of hardware. RHEV provides a GUI interface to manage the software, which makes the management of the software easier for the end-user. RHEV is best for non-production or less critical applications. RHEV can be easily integrated with other REDHAT software.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure Stack HCI operating system
  • Windows Admin Center
  • Hyper-V-based compute resources
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Discontinued Products
  • RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
  • Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
  • OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Interruptions are there when the connection is low.
  • Improvement needed on Integration feature.
  • A lot of issues were faced while implementing.
  • Documentation should be clear and straightforward.
  • Improvement needed on Documentation.
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Discontinued Products
  • 1- RHVM API is pretty slow, especially after creating a VM it is not possible to retrieve the VM details (i.e VM's MAC Address) fast enough, where we need to place a pause in our Ansible Playbook, make the automation process slow.
  • 2- RHV is still using collected to monitor the hypervisors which is deviating from Red Hat policy for other RHEL based applications to use PCP to monitor, which is richer in features.
  • 3- It will be great if it is possible to patch the hypervisors using other tools such as satellite and not only via RHVM.
  • 4- In the past Red Hat used to present patches in the z release (i.e. 4.3.z), and features in the y release (i.e 4. y), but starting from 4.4 that is mixed together wherein the Z release you get both patches and features, that is not good because that requires a lot of time to test when we patch as it includes features as well.
  • 5- Engineering team has to be more reactive when new feature is requested.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We can deploy the application into windows and Linux virtual machines in the datacentre, Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and hybrid capabilities, which now include Azure Arc enablement and new management scenarios through the Azure portal. GPU enablement and maximizing performance of we can go virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Discontinued Products
RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower their overall costs and improve efficiency and profits and that's why RHEV is an excellent solution!
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • The upside is the integration feature.
  • Pricing is a little higher.
  • When compared with another platform, Azure Stack HCI is performing/ functioning brilliantly.
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Discontinued Products
  • RHEV has provided a positive ROI as our customers are not experiencing as many outages during maintenances.
  • We have not experienced any catastrophic failures as a result of vsphere losing connection to the ntp.
  • There has been a level of stability in our environment that was not previously experienced with our previous vendor.
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