Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization

32 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)	Score6.1 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

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

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

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

No setup fee

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	Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Considered Both Products	Red Hat Naveen Sharma Consultant in Information Technology at DCM Infotech Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) 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 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 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 in Engineering at Made Tech (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Travelers (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) 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 in Information Technology at open *i GmbH (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) RHEV offers a decent GUI and many management features, such as an API. Incentivized Helpful? Ian Neveu Cloud Services Engineer in Corporate at Entrust Datacard (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Exeter Government Services, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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 Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) Pretty much Open Source sums it up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) RHEV is more stable than oVirt but less capability. Much easier to automate than esx Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Red Hat Virtualization
Feature	Red Hat Virtualization 7.7 10 Ratings
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

User Ratings
	Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (11 ratings)