HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

"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 console or the GUI of OpenShift is awesome. You can do a lot of things from there. You can perform administration tasks as well as development tasks."

"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."

"The platform has significantly improved our organization by enhancing productivity and reducing the time required to deploy applications."

"It is easy to expand."

"If I summarize the main benefit of this solution for my customers, it is the management of both virtualized and containerized environments, where the containerization will be more focused in the future."

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

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot to offer to developers, so they don't need to care about the infrastructure or basic setup of the containers, so you can just jump in and develop."

"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."

"The modernization in Ezmeral could be improved."

"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."

"One area for improvement is that we can't currently run Docker inside a container, as it clashes with security consents. It would be good if we could change that."

"The UI could be more user-friendly to drive tasks more effectively through the interface."

"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."

"Whenever we onboard or deploy services that talk to Oracle Database, they take a lot of time to become active and serve the incoming request, so it would be good to see some improvement here. This could be an OpenShift issue or an internal network problem within our organization."

"Container Platform could be improved if we could aggregate logs out of the box instead of having to do it through integrations with other products."

"In my experience, the issues are not always simply technical. They do stem from technical challenges, but they struggle with the topic of adoption. When you encounter all of the customer pull, there are normally several tiers of your client pop that can adopt either the fundamental features or a little more advanced ones. The majority of the time, the challenge is determining how to drive adoption, how to sell the product to the customer, and how much time they can spend to really utilize those advanced features. If we get into much more detail, but this is from my perspective as the platform engineer and not the end customer, the ability of the end user to be able to debug potential issues with their application That is arguably the most important, let's say, work throughput in my area."

"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."

"There is room for improvement with integration."

"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."

"We currently have an annual license renewal."

"The product is expensive."

"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."

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

"OpenShift Container Platform is highly-priced."

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

"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."