RHEV is the best virtualization software
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What is Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)?
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…
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Reviewers rate Hypervisor-level security highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 29, 2022
RHEV is the best virtualization software
We are using RHEV for the virtualization of servers in our environment. Currently, we are using RHEV for nonproduction servers. The best part of RHEV is an open source product in virtualization technology, it is vendor-independent software and a lot more cost-effective and flexible than proprietary solutions. We are managing 100 plus Virtual machines with RHEV in our environment and using the hardware efficiently as well as saving the cost of our project.
- RHEV allow us to install the Operating system image on virtual machines very quickly.
- RHEV is an open-source tool, we can easily integrate the solution on any hardware and do a lot of customization.
- RHEV is manageable through a Graphical User Interface, which makes it easy for the end-user to manage the RHEV.
- Works well on Patching tasks.
- 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.
- We easily scale the CPU and memory of the VM's using RHEV manager.
- OpenStack integration with RHEV.
- Integration of RHEV with Red Hat satellite.
- cContainer support on RHEV.
66%
6.6
- RHEV is an open-source tool, we can install on any hardware, it helps to save the cost of organization.
- RHEV is easily customizable and integrated with any other Red Hat software.
- RHEV increases the availability and management of Virtual machines, which saves the cost of organization in SLA.
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.
This was used in an organisation which I was working for, using a client-server architecture. This led to a more consistent environment and prevented *snowflake* desktops, which could be hard to diagnose issues on and provide support for. This also increased security and ultimately ended up saving a significant amount money for the company.
- Standardisation where provisioning the environment became repeatable and predictable.
- Easier debugging and understanding the client system.
- Improved security and centrally managed.
- Ran into a regression when updating firmware for IGEL
- Desktop froze and became non responsive on a few occasions.
- Server crashed and took down all the clients in the Thin setup.
- Positive effect in that it saves money on support and debugging client machines.
- Faster to fix bugs and debug user issues.
- Amazon WorkSpaces
- 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.
February 09, 2018
Redhat - Virtualization well done
It is currently being used in our department and we will be making the switch soon from VMware which is currently deployed. It is a really efficient VDI solution and we may end up using it for more departments prior to full enterprise wide deployment. So far it has been really reliable and easy to use with its control via the Web UI and no need for an installed application.
- Extremely reliable
- Easy to maintain in regards to upgrades
- RedHat has done a great job for added customization
- Open-source so has to be awesome
- Great end-user experience
- Well done on the Live migration
- Saw minor issues during first boot and configuration of VM's
- I doubt its a con but you need decent Linux skills to work with this
- Could improve and make more user-friendly in terms of UI
- Replacement costs are high for employee PC hardware and such a product has helped cut down costs and will continue to do so once deployed across more departments
- Increased availability and manageability
March 30, 2017
RHEV up your environment
We use RHEV across the organization from RND all the way down to our customer support operations. Every level has their own requirements and expectations from software and its use, RHEV provides the organization with a scalable virtualization platform that answers more of todays needs than competitors. We host systems for companies wanting a cloud based solution and the performance from RHEV is right on par with what our needs are.
- RHEV can acquire user and group information from an Active Directory service without a great deal of confusing configuration.
- RHEV management is browser-based and can be accessed from any platform.
- Online Snapshot capability, provides a better redundancy than vSphere.
- Hot Swappable functionality could be improved upon.
- Template importation from external sources.
- Better database synchronization when implemented.
78%
7.8
- 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.
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 are suspended. Template importation is still better in vSphere.
February 29, 2016
RHEV is a great option as an open-source hypervisor!
RHEV is being used to implement an open-source hypervisor (KVM) with an easy-to-use front end for our customers. Our organization is exploring the feasibility of using it to deploy to multiple external locations in order to make management of VMs easy for remote administrators. It has a very well documented Python API, which makes automation easier to implement.
- Automation integration
- Migration of VMs from one physical host to another
- Support for open-source community projects, such as Gluster, Cinder, and Glance
- Product Q&A, regression testing, bug fix turnaround
- Standardization of deployment between the baseline products (e.g. stand-alone vs. appliance should support same configuration options)
- Improve WebUI navigation
82%
8.2
- Reduced COTS costs to our organization due to the fact that it is open-source and has a freely available version (oVirt)
- It has helped to bring technology quickly to our operational locations due to the ability to quickly automate and deploy it
- It has enabled increased security to our enterprise due to the fact that it supports SELinux and allows us to customize the security posture of the infrastructure more easily
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 is more stable than RHEV, however ESXi does not support open-source community projects such as Gluster, Cinder, or Glance natively and relies on HW RAID, NAS, or SAN to achieve high availability. Additionally ESXi licenses tend to be more expensive than using RHEV or it's freely available sibling oVirt.