We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and RHEV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"The most valuable features of RHEV are all the tools, such as virtualization, management of cloud platforms, and integration of container environments. The solution has good compatibility between virtualization, content management, and cloud management. Having the full set of these tools is the advantage of it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"We hope that Red Hat can produce a paradigm edition. We are looking for paradigm computing and paradigm storage. Its scalability can be improved. It is not easy to scale, and we hope that Red Hat can provide a more scalable system. They should also provide local service and support. Our customers are looking for a good software vendor to provide professional services."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while RHEV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and IBM PowerVM, whereas RHEV is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. RHEV report.
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