Red Hat Virtualization vs. SwiftStack (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
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
SwiftStack (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
SwiftStack was a software-driven data storage and management platform for data-intensive applications and workflows, designed to provide seamless access to data across the edge, core data centers, and public clouds. It was acquired by NVIDIA in 2020 and is no longer available for sale.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Standard
$999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium
$1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SwiftStack (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat Virtualization
7.7
10 Ratings
4% below category average
SwiftStack (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
Management console7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Red Hat VirtualizationSwiftStack (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat VirtualizationSwiftStack (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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
  • 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
  • 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
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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Return on Investment
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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