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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AThe NetApp® EF-Series is a family of entry-level and midrange all-flash storage arrays that accelerate organizations' access to data and help derive value from it. These systems offer NVMe flash storage and provide more affordable to extreme IOPS, boasting response times under 100 microseconds and bandwidth up to 44GBps.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
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash ArraysRed 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
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    NetApp
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash ArraysRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
    8.9
    5 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity9.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
    -
    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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    Proxmox VE
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Everpure FlashArray
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash ArraysRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash ArraysRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NetApp
    NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is useful for the application that required high badwidth , IOP's like Video surveillance, analytics (hadoop), online transaction processing applications, fast data backup and restore. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is less appropriate for the application that required low/medium IOP's . i.e log collection application server, snapshot collection ... etc.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    NetApp
    • Storage pooling with thin provisioning
    • Solution of MetroCluster in Cluster-Mode known as MCC
    • very good solution for more than 500 users per cluster
    • impressive IOPS, microsecond response times
    • Faster database application
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    NetApp
    • NetApp EF-Series All Flash Array need to perform the additional configuration for multipathing
    • Experienced are required to manage this storage
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    NetApp
    HW and SW of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy to use, with very good support.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    NetApp
    I have not been able to work with such a great platform in my career experience. Data storage and networking of all databases have been a great achievement of this platform. The user interface is simple and the dashboard shows clear trends in data infrastructure. There are backup storage systems on our cloud servers in case we lose any data. It has an automated update system that keeps our applications up to date.
    Incentivized
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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!
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    NetApp
    • High dedupe ratio
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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