Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization

33 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)	Score 8.8 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 Virtualization

Editions & Modules

Standard: $999.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor
Premium: $1,499.00
Per Year Per Hypervisor

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Red Hat Virtualization
Considered Both Products	Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Chose Red Hat Virtualization 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Red Hat Virtualization Compared to oVirt, RHEV is more stable but has fewer capabilities. ESX is far more difficult to automate. Incentivized Helpful? Emile Swarts Developer Chose Red Hat Virtualization 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. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew J. Fitzpatrick President/CEO Chose Red Hat Virtualization 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Chose Red Hat Virtualization RHEV offers a decent GUI and many management features, such as an API. Incentivized Helpful? IN Ian Neveu Cloud Services Engineer Chose Red Hat Virtualization 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Charles Inglese Senior System Engineer Chose Red Hat Virtualization 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Red Hat Virtualization Pretty much Open Source sums it up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Virtualization RHEV is more stable than oVirt but less capability. Much easier to automate than esx Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Open source Pro End user Pro Live migration
Top Cons	Minus Setting up Minus Regression testing Minus Third party integration

Features

Red Hat Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Red Hat Virtualization 7.7 10 Ratings 8% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	7.910 Ratings
Management console	7.310 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	7.29 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	6.910 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.99 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Red Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (12 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Red Hat Virtualization
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. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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! Incentivized Matthew J. Fitzpatrick President/CEO Read full review
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. Incentivized IN Ian Neveu Cloud Services Engineer Read full review
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