OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter vs. Red Hat Virtualization

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Red Hat Virtualization

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is a plugin virtualization aid from Dell.	$149 Per 3 Years
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

Pricing

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Red Hat Virtualization

Editions & Modules

1 Host: $149.00
Per 3 Years
5 Hosts: $745.00
Per 3 Years

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter	Red Hat Virtualization
Considered Both Products	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter I'm not sure any other product can interact and update Dell hardware firmware other than this one. I think it should be free if you own Dell hardware, but the cost is minimal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter I have never used either of the two above-listed competitors, but we have sold both of them where customers find them to be a better fit. I've gotten to know the products fairly well this way, despite never using them myself. I think they're pretty similar. Zerto is definitely … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Wyman Systems Administrator Chose OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter OpenManage is a great utility if you are running Dell hardware in an ESXi environment. A similar product would be Nutanix Acropolis, but it is not a replacement for OpenManage as both are specific to the hypervisor you are running, and OpenManage is specific to Dell hardware. … Incentivized Helpful?	Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 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 Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 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 Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 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 (RHV) 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 (RHV) 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 (RHV) 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 (RHV) 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 (RHV) 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 Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) Pretty much Open Source sums it up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) RHEV is more stable than ovirt but less capability. Much easier to automate than esx Incentivized Helpful?

Features

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Red Hat Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter - Ratings	Red Hat Virtualization 7.7 Ratings 6% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

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User Ratings
	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter	Red Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter	Red Hat Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	When you start deploying dell servers that caters VMWares, [OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter] is very useful, aside from your main monitoring system, this platforms does the job well. [Its] centralized management of VMWare devices including dell switches, dell storage such as SAN. By this you can group devices or set of devices per branches so you can monitor outages, down time of a device. Incentivized HC Haniel Carlos Network Administrator Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Keep Dell Firmware up to date Alerts on Dell-specific items Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	Response time is slowed down when too many devices are enrolled User management to allow or limit access per user Push down approach update to all enroll or selected devices Incentivized HC Haniel Carlos Network Administrator Read full review	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. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I have never used either of the two above-listed competitors, but we have sold both of them where customers find them to be a better fit. I've gotten to know the products fairly well this way, despite never using them myself. I think they're pretty similar. Zerto is definitely an up-and-comer who is making some pretty big waves in this place. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized NS Naveen Sharma Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	OpenManage has saved us time by making the upgrade process more efficent OpenManage has saved us downtime by allowing us to keep parts of our environment running while doing upgrades Incentivized Eric Wyman Systems Administrator Read full review	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! Incentivized Matthew J. Fitzpatrick President/CEO Read full review
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