HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Red Hat are both solutions in the Container Management category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.0, while Red Hat is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 17.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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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

16th

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

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is 1.8%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 17.7%, down from 23.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	17.7%
HPE Ezmeral Container Platform	1.8%
Other	80.5%

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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

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

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

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

"On OpenShift, it's easy to scale applications. We can easily scale up or scale down."

"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."

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

"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."

"The most valuable are security features, particularly when operating in the cloud."

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and logging functionalities."

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

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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."

"Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions."

"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."

"Setting up OpenShift isn't easy. I rate it three out of ten for ease of setup. We're deploying it in three phases. They're in the second phase now. The total deployment time will be five months. We expect to complete the deployment this March. There are 13 people on three teams working on this deployment."

"OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration."

"One area for product improvement is the support limitations within the subscription models, particularly the restricted support hours for lower-tier subscriptions."

"Regarding return on investment, my customers have not yet seen value in money while or since implementing the Container Platform."

"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If you buy the product for a year or three, you get a lot of discounts...I feel that the product is worth its cost, especially since setting it up can be done with just a few clicks."

"Its price is a bit high because it's a premium product, but as long as the business is ready to pay for that, it's okay."

"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."

"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."

"The pricing and licensing are handled on an upper management level, and I'm not involved in that, but I understand the solution to be somewhat pricey."

"OpenShift pricing varies by region. For example, a simple cluster with three nodes in DAL-10 might cost around $560 to $580 per month, subject to specific configurations like memory and CPU cores."

"The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."

"It largely depends on how much money they earn from the application being deployed; you don't normally deploy an app just for the purpose of having it. You must constantly look into your revenue and how much you spend every container, minute, or hour of how much it is working."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

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?

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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 ).

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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