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Platform9 Managed OpenStack vs. Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

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    Platform9 Managed OpenStack

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APlatform9's Managed OpenStack enables users to deploy and operate OpenStack Hybrid Cloud with a 100% SaaS based service. The SaaS platform lets users go live with an OpenStack private cloud with its deployment tools. The Platform9 dashboard is designed to offer visibility into infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads.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

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    Platform9 Managed OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
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    per node
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Platform9 Managed OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Platform9 Managed OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Platform9 Managed OpenStack and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    Platform9 Managed OpenStack
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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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    Proxmox VE
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Platform9 Managed OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Platform9 Managed OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Platform9
    If you're having OnPremise Infrastructure and you want to use OpenStack in that case Platform9 Managed OpenStack is recommended to use it will cut down all the complexities of setting up and managing OpenStack IaaS. Platform9 also offers setting up OpenStack on Cloud Such as AWS, GCP, and Azure but wouldn't recommend using this kind of offering as Openstack performs well when underneath virtualized infrastructure is backed directly hypervisors not cloud providers.
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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
    Platform9
    • It removes all the Openstack complexities and provides a simple UI to the end user.
    • Reduced the pain of System Administrator and Engineers.
    • Highly responsive support.
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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
    Platform9
    • User interface and User experience are not upto the mark. UI needs lots of improvements.
    • We need to do entire setup from the scratch.
    • Nothing as such other than UI Improvements.
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    • 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
    Platform9
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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
    Platform9
    • Platform9 simplified scaling in and out hypervisors now adding capacity takes very less time than other OpenStack environments.
    • Platfrom9 Managed Openstack gives us feeling of having our own private cloud!
    • It has increased the availability of our infrastructure which resulted lessen downtime on workloads deployed on top of it.
    • Overall it benefited us in all means.
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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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