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Firecracker vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Firecracker

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AFirecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker enables users to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs that may provide security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services with the goal of improving services like AWS Lambda…N/A

    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARed 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
    FirecrackerRed 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
    FirecrackerRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    FirecrackerRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Firecracker and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    Firecracker
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning6.01 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Management console8.01 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup6.01 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration7.01 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security5.01 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FirecrackerRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
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    User Testimonials
    FirecrackerRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    While deploying workloads in lightweight microVMs presents a couple of perks, Firecracker may not be the best software to handle this. Startup times are slow and scalability is quite limited because of the jailer and virtualization barriers. We have had security breaches on isolated EC2 instances while using Firecracker. It however has a silver lining by improving how serverless functions in container ecosystems are run with their VMMs.
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    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
    Open Source
    • It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area
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    • 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
    Open Source
    • Excludes devices unnecessarily
    • Has a slow startup time the basis being to improve security which is quite irrelevant.
    • It has limited functionalities on monitoring VMs despite being an open source.
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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
    Open Source
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    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
    Open Source
    • Low memory overhead on each microVM
    • We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.
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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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