HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Ranking in Container Management

15th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat OpenShift Container...

Ranking in Container Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is 2.3%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 16.6%, down from 22.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	16.6%
HPE Ezmeral Container Platform	2.3%
Other	81.1%

Container Management

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Chaianan Chaiyakeereepong

Pre-Sale at Yip Intsoi

Effective cost management achieved with robust storage features but user experience and data management require improvements

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management. For example, it cannot make a data catalog or process data lineage without third-party support, which increases the cost for development.

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Nelandran Moodley

Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa

Consistent performance impresses users while technical support needs improvement

I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers. We do no maintenance for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform since ROSA is fully managed, and that's why it is a bit more expensive than EKS. The fully managed service includes 24/7 support, scheduling, and upgrades; we only need to inform Red Hat support about upgrades, and they manage the process end to end. Overall, I rate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a nine; although I would say ten, I think it's important to allow room for improvement.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"If customers focus on primary apps or if they are using them for data science, this is a good solution."

"The stability of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is good, and I rate it an eight out of ten."

"The most valuable feature is that the solution can be deployed in the cloud which removes the expense of a server."

"More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters."

"The most valuable feature is that the solution can be deployed in the cloud which removes the expense of a server."

"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."

"It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications."

"Since we had limited time for our project, this solution was very helpful in getting us into production within a short time frame."

"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."

"Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature."

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Cons

"HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management."

"The modernization in Ezmeral could be improved."

"If a customer is focused on process automation or API usage, I would not recommend this solution, but it is good to use for Data Science."

"The product could benefit from additional operators and tools integrated with OpenShift."

"The product's setup process could be easier."

"It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard."

"OpenShift has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not an easy tool to use. It's not only OpenShift but Kubernetes itself. The good thing is that Red Hat provides specific targeted training. There are five or six pieces of training where you can get certifications. The licenses for OpenShift are pretty expensive, so they could be cheaper because the competition isn't sleeping, and Red Hat must take that into account."

"I want to see more incorporation of native automation features; then, we could write a code, deploy it directly to OpenShift, and allow it to take care of the automated process. Using this method, we could write one application and have elements copy/pasted to other applications in the development process."

"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."

"The product monitoring tool does not work for us."

"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries to upgrade the second level and gets stuck, so that area should be enhanced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its licensing is completely incomprehensible. We have special people within our company. They discuss with Red Hat subscription managers. It is too complex, and I do not understand it. We are from the government, and we are trying to be as cheap as possible. Sometimes, I am just amazed at the amount of money that we have to pay. It is crazy."

"We paid for Cloud Pak for integration. It all depends on how many VMs or how many CPUs you are using. They do the licensing based on that."

"We have to pay for the license."

"I'm not familiar with pricing or financial aspects. In terms of effort versus benefit, it's worth it."

"OpenShift with Red Hat support is pretty costly. We have done a comparison between AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services) which provides fully managed services from AWS. It's built on open-source-based Kubernetes clusters and it is much cheaper compared to Red Hat, but it is a little expensive compared to ECS provided by AWS."

"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."

"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."

"The pricing is expensive for licensing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

What is your primary use case for HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

We want to replace the existing Cloudera data lake with HPE Ezmeral Container Platform ( /products/hpe-ezmeral-container-platform-reviews ).

What advice do you have for others considering HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

I rate the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform seven out of ten because it has strong features for storage but lacks certain data management functionalities, requiring additional investments for third-p...

Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?

Regarding whether Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is expensive or if the price is reasonable for my customers, to me, the services it provides should incur some costs, but based on market feed...

What needs improvement with OpenShift Container Platform?

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries...

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Overview

Accelerate your journey to hybrid cloud with the industry’s first enterprise-grade container software platform for cloud-native and distributed non-cloud native applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Red Hat® OpenShift® offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

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HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform