Red Hat Virtualization vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Red Hat Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
VMware vSOM (discontinued)	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	VSOM from VMware was a solution that delivered vSphere server virtualization, and also added capacity management and performance monitoring features. It is discontinued as of February 2019. Users were migrated to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vRealize Operations Standard.	N/A

Pricing

Red Hat Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
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
	Red Hat Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	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?	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Chose VMware vSOM (discontinued) vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Red Hat Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Red Hat Virtualization 7.7 Ratings 6% below category average	VMware vSOM (discontinued) 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	7.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Management console	7.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	7.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	6.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.90 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Red Hat Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
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Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	Scale Computing Platform Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	IBM PowerVM Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Red Hat Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	6.6 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Red Hat Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	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	Vsphere Operation Management is suitable for automating the process of bringing up an alternate data center in case of a disaster. It also is a great way for testing your readiness of disaster. You have the ability to bring up a server in a "bubble" for testing. This way you can show your admins how the failover process will work. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Pros	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	The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Cons	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	The installation of VSOM is very tedious It uses an MS SQL database It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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	vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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	In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial. The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially. Support for VSOM is terrific. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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