RHEV Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sep 11, 2013

RHEV 3.2 is Quite Stable, Unlike Previous Versions

I am very pleased to say that I like Red Hat in many ways because of their innovations,working on new technology and improving day by day bringing it upto the expectations of customers with premium support available through out at all time. RHEV was launched as a web portal based access of virtual machines throughout the network which is used in organizations for different purposes with all virtualization features available today; earlier they were having problems with the product but now RHEV 3.2 is quite stable.

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

it_user2652Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

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Oct 13, 2013

Is there any limit on number of virtual machines on RHEV?

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Infrastructure Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 10, 2012

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RHEV is excellent due to cost, performance and security.

Valuable Features:

RHEV costs are very low compared to other Virtualization products. RHEV hypervisor supports up to 160 cores and up to 2 TB of RAM on a host machine. Performance and security are key advantages of RHEV. One of the new features are transparent huge pages, where kernel dynamically creates large memory pages for virtual machines, which improves performance for most workloads by reducing the number of times that memory is accessed. It is open source, which means that it is available for use by every one. There is a “Power user portal” feature that helps developer and IT staff with a self-service interface that allows them to provision virtual machines, define templates, and be an administrator to their own environment.

Room for Improvement:

You need to buy support from red hat and you need to renew support every year in order to keep getting support from red hat. Some features are unavailable compared to leading visualization products. RHEV hyper-visor came later into the market than other leading visualization product.

Other Advice:

RHEV hyper visor is a cost effective solution for virtualization. Its work on kernel base virtualization systems. Its usage keep growing in the market.

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

it_user2652Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

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Dec 7, 2014

Very good information about how many logical and virtual CPU can be supported on different types of virtualization. However, could you please guide us where there are any significant better performances or bottlenecks when the number of CPUs are quite large.

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