Dell VPLEX vs. Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell VPLEX
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Dell VPLEX aims to maximize the returns on investments in all-flash infrastructure or hybrid arrays by providing continuous availability to business-critical workloads. VPLEX also creates a flexible storage architecture designed to gives IT teams the agility they need to respond to rapid business and technology changes while maximizing asset utilization across active-active datacenters.N/A
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Hitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A
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
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Features
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Dell VPLEX
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Ratings
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
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Ratings
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
7.7
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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User Ratings
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.6
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dell VPLEXHitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Dell Technologies
This works in two fold. First it creates a copy of the data in two locations, protecting the data from a SAN or a NAS failure. Second, it provides a data point in a second location that can be used as storage for a stretched virtual cluster, giving a virtual stack a means to continue operation.
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Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance
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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
Dell Technologies
  • High Availability
  • Fail Over
  • Business continuity
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Hitachi Vantara
  • Scaling Flexibility
  • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
  • Improving cost efficiency
  • Simplifying storage management
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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
Dell Technologies
  • Requires high bandwidth low latency connectivity between sites.
  • Cost wise it is expensive because you have to purchase with a mirror in mind.
  • Configuration can be difficult.
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Hitachi Vantara
  • Cost is too high
  • Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
  • Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner
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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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Usability
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Hitachi Vantara
It combines with enterprise level storages very well. Due to its high reliability & uptime, it is valued greatly by such institutes. Secondly, it's advanced virtualization reduces the complexity & cost, which in turn results in maximizing hardware utilization. Performance efficiency is amazing even under heavy workloads. Built-in cache optimization and automated tiering help ensure efficient data placement.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Dell Technologies
When this was purchased there was no other product that could achieve what we were looking for, now this feature is pretty standard with storage platforms. It is a costly solution not just the hardware but the infrastructure to support it. It requires a connection between sites with at least 3 gigabytes per second and sub 5 millisecond latency and a network infrastructure capable of handling that
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Hitachi Vantara
There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit
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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
Dell Technologies
  • Reduced down time.
  • Provides business continuity.
  • Reduces single point of failure on the SAN.
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Hitachi Vantara
  • Cost had bit of negative impact
  • Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business
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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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