RHEV Valuable Features
Mike Neuliep
Linux Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In my opinion, the best features of RHEV are that it is a real hypervisor and it is free, so it performs better than VMware.
I have used the live migration feature in the past with RHEV. There is a free clone of it that is based on the open source. Live migration is a nifty feature if your app is not highly available and you need to do maintenance on a machine. You can migrate the VM off of it, do your maintenance, and move it back when you are done.
RHEV has a high availability architecture with a built-in monitoring feature where you could see machines other than the one you are operating on. I tend to implement high availability not so much in RHEV, but by using standard application high availability strategies. Red Hat has another product specifically for high availability.
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reviewer2148417
Sales Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We've gotten used to using Red Hat products for a long time, and the main advantage of using the same product and standardization brings some efficiency, along with cost optimization in our software and hardware environments, especially after VMware was acquired by Broadcom, which affected customers such as us. However, we haven't changed the pricing structure or lost any money against other things, so our systems are optimized, and we can say that we saved a lot of money.
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AdilRajput
CTO at a government with 201-500 employees
The biggest aspect for me is the disk usage, the virtual manager, and the deployment of machines. It has significantly improved in recent years. It used to be specialized, but now it is very similar to VMware.
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Mike Neuliep
Linux Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's just easy to use. You could do all of the core product features that you could do with VMware. You can move a VM from one machine to the other, and you have all the same disk options, like thin versus thick provisioning and the ability to emulate different processor types... the management's kind of the same. It's just the third-party support that's better for Microsoft and VMware. That's the biggest difference.
Sujeet-Kumar
Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The product has a good price. The major difference between RHEV and VMware is the price. RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware.
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Rami Abuaus
Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software.
reviewer1561059
Program Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The high availability and live VM migration are the most useful aspects of the solution.
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Amar-S
Corporate Counsel at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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 preferred to have everything from the same vendor. This solution is one of the best and it includes automation and supports many virtualization layers. I prefer to propose this solution to customers unless they have a specific choice.
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Presales Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Many of our customers are moving to open source-based technology and VMware is leading the virtualization space, but slowly customers are moving to open source and Red Hat is the leader in this particular space. I think customers feel more confident running Red Hat Virtualization than VMware. And if you talk about a lot of other features that VMware provides, Red Hat does that too. I mean, it's not only Red Hat, I would say, Oracle and Red Hat, both of them are providing good capabilities. I think customers like this.
In terms of cost, VMware is really expensive for many of the customers, so that is another reason why they want to switch to these technologies.
reviewer2120835
Chairman at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The solution has all the essential features for deployment and virtualization.
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AANKITGUPTAA
Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution has a good licensing module.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
The solution is stable.
It's a scalable solution.
The pricing is fair.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very stable.
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Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
Because of my background is in Open Source, the number one feature is it is open source. This means all Open Source features are included. So, I can control and manage everything. This is the best part for me.
Also, Red Hat products are easy to use.
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Mohamed SOUNKERE
Co-founder & CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
To be clear, for us to use Red Hat, we need an OpenStack platform. Red Hat OpenStack is a Red Hat platform based on OpenStack to make a public cloud platform. Regarding the features we find valuable, we use all the stack on this platform including the network, storage, compute and controller management and they all work well.
There aren't any bugs on the solution.
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Project Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The valuable features of this solution are that it's open source, non-proprietary, and we can do just about anything we want to with the codes. There are no legal issues stopping us and of course Red Hat is rock solid and very stable.
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Prakahsrao Jagarou
Associate Principal at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature in this product is that it is easy for us to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications that are available. For example, we have Drupal, Magento, Node.js, and other applications to host. So when we are looking for a base system solution that is able to support all of these components, I look to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. It provides a lot of flexibility in terms of compute scaling, resource allocation, and also the stability of the platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is giving us more benefits in these situations because it is stable. This makes it easy to do this migration and easy to manage as well.
PJ
Prakahsrao Jagarou
Associate Principal at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is easy for us to deal with when comes to application migration and has good compatibility with multiple components. For example, we have Drupal, Magento and then Node.js. When we are looking at which particular solution to run or maybe the base system to support these components, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the perfect choice.
The solution offers flexibility in terms of computation scaling and resource allocation.
The platform is very stable.
The solution makes migration easy.
The management of the solution is very simple.
it_user1281042
Unix Linux System Administrator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The price is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's much cheaper than, for example, VMware.
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DaveChapman
Business Support Officer at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
Basically stability and speed are the most valuable aspects.
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Engineer Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal.
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YOUNISAL BADAWI
IT Infrastructure and Systems Lead at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability.
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Head of Solutions Architect Unit at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good.
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IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS.
The support for this solution is very good. This is the major thing that we are considering with respect to moving platforms.
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CIO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The Ovirt component has flexibility, and is easy to perform integration within a heterogenous data centre manager with OpenStack or ManageIQ.
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Infrastructure Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
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.
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it_user1065
Senior Manager of Data Center at a integrator with 51-200 employees
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
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Jinpin Lim
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing.
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