Red Hat OpenShift vs. Red Hat Virtualization

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
$0.08
per hour
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Score 8.5 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
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
Considered Both Products
Red Hat OpenShift
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
Openshift provides a way to deploy Containerized Java applications running on JBoss EAP and RHEL in a very easy way. Reducing server preparation time, hardening-server headaches, and deploying to different stages nightmares.
Chose Red Hat OpenShift
  • Openshift is way simpler in operating, designing, and understanding compared to Openstack.
  • Upgrades for Openshift is easier compared to Openstack.
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Chose Red Hat Virtualization
RHV has the following advantages:
  • They have relatively cheaper subscriptions compared to others.
  • With the future going to Openstack and containerization migrating to KVM-based virtualization will be easier to migrate to future products.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat OpenShift
7.7
91 Ratings
6% below category average
Red Hat Virtualization
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.575 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability8.691 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.783 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability7.274 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control7.685 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration7.677 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation8.083 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication7.778 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification7.181 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery7.980 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes8.384 Ratings00 Ratings
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat OpenShift
-
Ratings
Red Hat Virtualization
7.7
10 Ratings
8% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.39 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
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AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(100 ratings)
6.6
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.4
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend
Red Hat
Well, in our case, because I have two use cases, one is with the operator, which obviously is super easy with OpenShift because it's just click, click start aside from the issue from the operator. But that's a different interview. And the other point is for the web portal that our portal team uses, it's very easy. Two perform a task needed for them to do their deployment, their pipelines, and their daily Java.
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Red Hat
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
Red Hat
  • Scales very well.
  • It provides you with a landing pad to modernize what you have in a phased approach so you don't have to do it all at once, right? You can take small pieces of work and implement those on OpenShift over time. It enables us to be able to implement things like GI ops configuration as a service, and infrastructure as a service using the tools that are native to OpenShift, which gives us far greater reliability and consistency as far as monitoring for any kind of drift and configuration or unauthorized changes. So it pretty much gives us a lot of visibility on things that are otherwise relatively difficult to see using the old means of doing what we do. So it provides us with a modern set of tools to accomplish all those objectives.
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Red Hat
  • 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
Red Hat
  • Network of observability, so having one single screen to see to have some network-related metrics for the pod levels. Also at the cluster itself level and more importantly is ease of use for troubleshooting when there's any timeout. This has been the single kind of issue I've been facing for my three years of experience with OpenShift and it hasn't been an easy task for such troubleshooting.
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Red Hat
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Red Hat
Leverage OpenShift Online constantly at both the free and paid tiers. While AWS is convenient, it often brings more administration than I want to deal with for a quick application (i.e. Drupal or Wordpress blog). OpenShift also simplifies the DNS registration and ability to share application environments with team members
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Usability
Red Hat
As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Performance
Red Hat
Applications deployed to OpenShift clusters stay responsive when peak load hits or when the traffic dies down - since the platform reacts by scaling out or scaling in the deployed applications elastically - achieved through' policy sense and response automation - leveraging monitoring, measuring (metrics), auto-scaling to meet SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs. This approach works for stateless or stateful business logic hosting applications. The deployed applications perform consistently, stably, and securely across many deployment platforms - public clouds, private data centers, at the edge, or on factory floors - hosted by bare metal or virtual environments.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Red Hat
Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Red Hat
We had some existing apps and were looking for a platform to modernize our app deployments and scale for future growth. Based on Kubernetes, OpenShift offers more flexibility and customization. We could deploy any type of containerized application, not just Cloud Foundry-specific ones. I particularly liked the built-in security and its focus on rapid and automated deployments. Moreover, our cloud strategy isn't set in stone. OpenShift's flexibility means we could deploy on-prem, in multiple public clouds, or use a hybrid approach - something other products couldn't offer as expected.
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Red Hat
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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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Red Hat
It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Red Hat
  • I'll say a lot of positive impact because when we started making this product aware to all the application domains in our business, they saw how easy to use. I mean we are giving a lot of control to the development team, how they can scale their application, how can they check the health of the application, and what action they can take if they are in any kind of failure or even meeting the business's SLA. So there are a lot of capabilities and those are really new features they can use. Those I think are a good use of OpenShift.
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Red Hat
  • 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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