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Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) vs. SolusVM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
SolusVM
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
SolusVM from Plesk, a Swiss company, allows the user to Manage OpenVZ, Xen and KVM virtual machines from one central point.
$3
per month
Pricing
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Editions & Modules
Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Slave Only
$3.00
per month
Enterprise
$10.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Considered Both Products
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
NS
Naveen Sharma
Consultant
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Compared to oVirt, RHEV is more stable but has fewer capabilities. ESX is far more difficult to automate.
Emile Swarts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Emile Swarts
Developer
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
  • Red Hat Enterprise is more expensive but better supported when it comes to support.
  • Amazon WorkSpaces had more online documentation and resources to scan through.
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
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 …
Valentin Höbel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Valentin Höbel
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
RHEV offers a decent GUI and many management features, such as an API.
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Ian Neveu
Cloud Services Engineer
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
We use them both, as one is not better than the other at all facets required. There is still a need to use both products, as we have not fully switched to RHEV due to Vsphere still having an edge over them with edits available to the systems while they are operational or they …
Charles Inglese | TrustRadius Reviewer
Charles Inglese
Senior System Engineer
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
VMware ESXi is a more mature technology, as it has been around for a longer period of time. However, automating ESXi installations requires hacking OEM media and an intense amount of knowledge of how ESXi operates under the hood. The WebUI and associated functionality for ESXi …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
Pretty much Open Source sums it up.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
RHEV is more stable than ovirt but less capability. Much easier to automate than esx
SolusVM
Chose SolusVM
SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
Features
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
7.7
Ratings
4% below category average
SolusVM
-
Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Management console7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.6 out of 10
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)SolusVM
Likelihood to Recommend
Red Hat Virtualization is suitable for small implementation and hosting VMs. However, when you start asking for additional features or enhancements, the engineering team is not the flexible as other engineering teams in Red Hat. It is very likely they will not accept adding features or in the best case. They wouldn't commit to a plan when it is possible to be available.
Verified User
Anonymous
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SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros
  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
  • Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
  • Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
  • Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons
  • Documentation of RHEV needs more improvement.
  • RHEV GUI needs a lot of improvements in some versions of RHEV, GUI will not work properly (shows incorrect details of VM ).
  • Need fast rollout of patch releases.
  • Need good linux Knowledge to manage the RHEVM.
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Naveen Sharma
Consultant
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  • Less collection of OS templates
  • It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
  • Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable software, which helps us to customize our environment. Since RHEV is an open-source tool, we can install it on any hardware. There is no proprietary dependency.
NS
Naveen Sharma
Consultant
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SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
  • It has had an extremely positive impact on my overall business and has allowed me to utilize and leverage it as an offering to my clients.
  • It's an extremely solid, robust, and reliable product built off of KVM Virtualization technology.
  • Less expensive solution than VMware and includes more features!
Matthew J. Fitzpatrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
  • It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
  • It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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