RHEV Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2014

Reduced costs by reducing amount of servers

For how long have you used this solution? - 1 year

Which features are most valuable? - Live migration

Can you give an example of how this solution has improved the way your organization functions? -We where able to reduce the amount of servers. This has reduced our costs significantly.

What areas of this solution have room for improvement? - The interface is sometimes not logical and previous versions where not so stable but luckily this has been mostly resolved.

Did you encounter any issues with deployment, stability or scalability? If so, please describe. - Stability and bugs in previous 2.x versions

Did you previously use a different solution and if so, why did you switch? - No this was our first virtual platform

Before choosing this solution, did you evaluate other options? If so, which ones? - The choice was clear for us; it had to be open-source with commercial support

How would you rate the level of customer service and technical support? - The support we got so far from redhat as customers was great. You would probably not get better elsewhere

Was the initial setup straightforward or complex? In what ways? - Straightforward. Yes there is a great guide online at redhat on how to install this

Did you implement it in-house or through a vendor team? If through a vendor, how would you rate their work? - We installed it in-house as we are reseller and integrator

What is your ROI on this solution? - There is no investment in this product. As a reseller we can use it to test for free we pay every year a fixed cost as partner.

What was your original setup cost for this solution and what is your day-to-day cost of using it? - Free for us

What advice would you give to others looking into this solution? - I would say give it a look if you are looking for a virutalization platform. Most of the things can be done with rhev and the cost is much lower then with other commercial solutions. Since version 3 this product is mature and since version 3.1 most glitches where removed.

Disclosure: The company I work for is partners with several vendors (including Red Hat) - http://www.open-future.be/solutions/partners

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user140712Consultant at a tech consulting company

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May 22, 2016

Patrik, I do not think you are allowed to use NFR licenses for production.

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reviewer1255770

Engineer Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 10, 2020

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A responsive technical support portal is available for quickly solving problems

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."

"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We have been using RHEV in both on-premises and cloud deployments for testing.

In my team, we don't have access to a paid version of Red Hat. Instead, we mostly use CentOS and Ubuntu.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal.

What needs improvement?

Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved. I find this to be the biggest problem. In Ubunto they have the idea of the Netplan, which is much better than the facility in Red Hat.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using RHEV for about five months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have seen some bugs that I fixed on my own.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not had to scale this solution because it is not for everyday use. Rather, we use it for testing purposes.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support for RHEV is very fast and good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We use different versions of Linux including CentOS and Ubuntu. CentOS is very comparable to Red Hat because it is almost the same, internally.

How was the initial setup?

In the beginning, the initial setup was quite complex. However, once you get used to it, I would say that the setup is of normal difficulty and not a problem.

What about the implementation team?

I implemented this solution with the assistance of my colleague.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are using the free version of Red Hat.

What other advice do I have?

RHEV is a good solution and I would rate it a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner

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it_user801585

Infrastructure Consultant at Oriental Weavers

Nov 1, 2019

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A stable and open-source solution that is good for websites with heavy traffic

Pros and Cons

"Red Hat is the most stable system."

"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of this solution is for making DNS, website work, DHCP, and other security functions like ID tables and other tools.

What needs improvement?

The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement.

In the next release. I would like to see some additional features to make it easier, such as improvements to the GUI and the maintenance. The maintenance of Red Hat is difficult.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for seventeen years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Red Hat is the most stable system. It's better than other OS solutions.

How was the initial setup?

At first, this solution was deployed on-premises, then I converted it to cloud using VMware tools to make our private cloud on our data center.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This is an open-source solution.

What other advice do I have?

I have always recommended using other platforms versus Windows. I didn't like using any Windows system, Microsoft system or any system with heavy traffic like ERP and Websites.

I recommend Linux.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user1065

Senior Manager of Data Center at a integrator with 51-200 employees

Jul 3, 2012

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One of the best open source virtualization techniques with enhanced security, performance, and cost advantage

Valuable Features:

Few pros of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are- 1) Kernel based virtual machine(KVM) virtualization technology 2) Good application compatibility and interface 3) Memory page sharing 4) NIC bonding 5) Multipath I/O 6) Efficient guest consolidation, live migration and HA 7) SELinux for enhanced security

Room for Improvement:

Few cons of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are1) Need to create virtual machine environment per node 2) Issues with clustering 3) Load balancing not very efficient and fails to utilize and distribute network resources.

Other Advice:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is an enterprise virtualization solution made by Red Hat. It has been designed for intergration with Virtualization manager with servers. It has robust virtualization management features with proven enterprise security and performance. This Hypervisor is basically based on Kernel Based Virtual Machine. It has inbuilt features such as live migration, high availability (which manages server availability), and zero downtime for the virtual machines.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user516732Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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Sep 20, 2016

We are using Redhat hypervisor for large organization - 50K plus. It is best virtualization solution we have used so far.

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reviewer1200555

Head of Solutions Architect Unit at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 24, 2019

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Excellent virtualization, good stability, and very good technical support

Pros and Cons

"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."

"The solution could use network virtualization."

What is most valuable?

The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good.

What needs improvement?

The GUI interface needs improvement. Not 90%, but 50% or 60% of the work is done from the command line and so on, so the GUI needs work because people are looking for an easier way to manage the environment. Right now, if someone is not very familiar with Red Hat and actually is looking to add Red Hat to the environment, they have to take some training. It needs to be easier to use.

The solution could use network virtualization.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is very good. We've had very good feedback on it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is very scalable.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support is very good.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup can be a bit complex, but it depends on the deployment itself.

What other advice do I have?

We are resellers of Red Hat. We deal with various deployment models, however, we generally deal with on-premises.

I would recommend the solution. Of course, it depends on what an organization is looking for in terms of virtualization.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Reseller.

it_user82197

Business Development Staff at a integrator with 51-200 employees

May 30, 2017

RHEV continues to evolve and delivers functionality at low cost

We have been using RHEV in our production environment since 3.0 and have I to say that the product continues to evolve with each release. The current version is very stable and offers all of the features we require from a virtualisation infrastructure platform. I am especially impressed with the self provision user portal and the performance of Spice as a remote desktop protocol, although it would be nice to have better client end support (OSX, IOS etc).

One of the biggest lacking features is the ability to replicate virtual machine configurations to another RHEV environment for DR. Our development team addressed this by producing a python script which calls the REST API and replicates VM configuration allowing us to restore data into prebuilt VMs. www.quru.com/rvsr

Overall we are very happy with RHEV and have deployed a number of roll outs to our UK based clients. Looking forward to the next release.

Disclaimer: the company I work for is partners with several vendors including Red Hat

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it_user4401Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Mar 5, 2014

I like at RHEV the feature called Transparent Huge Pages, which allows Linux to dynamically create large memory pages for virtual machines and improve performance by reducing the number of times that memory is accessed. Another useful feature is a power user portal that allows users to provision VMs, define templates, administer and customize environments. RHEV 3.0 and the newer versions have scalability improvements. As far as I know, they support around 160 logical CPUs and 2 TB per host. You said that you are very happy with RHEV, I am also happy with it.

it_user334560

CIO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 11, 2015

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It's possible to OEM and create a product with Ovirt as the main component.

Valuable Features:

The Ovirt component has flexibility, and is easy to perform integration within a heterogenous data centre manager with OpenStack or ManageIQ.

Improvements to My Organization:

It has the possibility to OEM and create a great product with Ovirt as the main component.

Room for Improvement:

It needs a better administrator KB, similar to what Citrix XenDesktop has. Also, they don't know how to sell their great products and don’t really seems to be interested in taking care of their partners who trust and really know their products.

Other Advice:

If you have a heterogenous data centre that is specially focused on Linux platforms, this is safe money, and good if you are looking for automation.

It also offers great integration with DevOps tools.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We have a joint OEM product based on the Ovirt component.