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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 27, 2022
Infrastructure Architect
Red Hat Virtualization is used to host virtual machines for our telecommunications applications.
- 1- It easy to upload qcow2 images from the browser.
- 2- It is easy to automate repetitive tasks with Ansible using RHVM API.
- 3- It is easy to patch the hypervisors.
- 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.
- 1- Automating regular tasks using Ansible.
- 2- Deploying VMs using templates.
- 3- Special features for VMs as CPU pinning and NUMA.
76%
7.6
- 1- The subscription fees is relatively low compared to other virtualization solutions.
- 2- Automation of VMs' deployment is simple, that helped a lot in speeding up VM deployment however there is room to improve by making the API faster.
- 3- Adding hypervisors in an automated way is simple that helped to scale out our environment.
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.
- The easiness to use Ansible to automate activities on Red Hat Virtualization make it easier to consolidate all your automation tasks using one automation solution.
March 12, 2022
Using RHV with KVM is fantastic.
Due to its inclusion in RedHat, RHV is utilized as a one-stop solution for virtual environments. The installation expenses of such a system pose a significant challenge for businesses. We're utilizing RHV instead of VSphere since it's more cost-effective and easier to integrate with KVM.
- 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.
- If the aforementioned can't be done, additional open-source tool compatibility or support.
- Improved compatibility with KVM.
90%
9.0
- Testing on oVirt before acquiring RedHat service contracts has a positive influence.
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 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.
February 23, 2016
Make way for RHEV
RHEV is used as a one stop solution for virtual environments due to it being part of the RedHat distro.
Business problems that come with this is the costs associated with the implementation of such a solution.
Business problems that come with this is the costs associated with the implementation of such a solution.
- Any issues/bugs with RHEV can be fixed by using bugzilla to get in contact with RH support. The support is fantastic and a reply is usually given fairly quickly.
- Integration into RedHat distro is seamless as it is already baked into it's kernel.
- Support for OpenStack allows for more customization with VM templates and advanced network configuration management.
- I would like to see more cloud automated solutions with RHEV with kickstarting nodes without external assistance with tools such as cobbler/foreman.
- If the above cant be done, then more compatibility or support for other open source tools.
86%
8.6
- oVirt and VMware ESXi
Pretty much Open Source sums it up.