Linux Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5
Nov 14, 2025
I have done some consulting where I used RHEV, taking on side jobs to run virtual machines in the financial industry for a startup. The last time I used RHEV was in my home lab, but that has been deprecated for a long time. Red Hat does not really support it, and they want you to move everything to their commercial virtualization platform. I never really stopped using RHEV from my lab's perspective and my own use.
Sales Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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Top 20
Jul 1, 2025
Our main use cases for RHEV are that our legacy virtualization system became RHEV, which we use for the container environment, and we moved a lot of our workloads that were running on the VMware side. The impact of RHEV on workload consolidation in our data center started first with separating Linux and Windows workloads in our environment. I don't know what percentage of savings we achieved with the Linux migrations, but I can say that 40% of the virtualization and other costs were eliminated from our legacy virtualization side. For the Windows side, we also initiated a digital transformation project, moving a lot of Windows applications to the container side and the open-source software side, which resulted in almost 70% savings of our past expenses.
I work within the large Red Hat ecosystem. I started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and continue to use it. I have begun utilizing their virtualization and VM technology, aiming to replace VMware. Additionally, I use their Syslog. Most of these are installed on Red Hat Linux, including Zabbix, Wazoo, and Keycloak. Wazoo is a SIM solution.
They use various application and database servers, including small Oracle databases, Postgres databases, and others supporting Java applications. They also use servers like Tomcat and Apache.
The primary use of this solution is to implement ERP. If you want to have multiple servers on the same machine or if you do not require multiple machines it supports kernel-based virtual machines.
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Mar 5, 2021
For any application that requires 100% uptime, 100% of data accessibility, I use these servers. Within our organization, there are roughly 100 employees using this solution.
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
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Nov 12, 2020
We are a computer service company with several partnership. We are partners with HPE, Cisco, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, just to mention. We provide data centers solutions, with Hardware, Networking, Security, and Software. Also, we have our data center and we are offering cloud solutions for others. We are deploying Red Hat products for our cloud solutions. And our cloud is Red Hat Virtualization based, and soon we will have another cloud Red Hat OpenStack based. For the cloud solutions, we're in the marketing and sales stage. We are planning to build software solutions for clients in addition to what we will be offered publicly. We have a lot of clients in petroleum and banking sectors. For our clients, we are planning to offer them the best solutions for their activities on the cloud. We have two branches, our headquarter is in Tripoli and we have a branch in Benghazi. Between the two offices, there are around 28 engineers acting in providing solutions.
Enterprise Virtualization is for specific customers. We are an integrator and we have some customers who want to have in their data center or in their office a virtualization solution. This solution is perfect for that type of client.
Associate Principal at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Mar 16, 2020
In my company, I am working in a strategic department. My primary task in the company at the present time is looking into an overall roadmap for our organization to adopt a virtualization solution. We are doing this mostly for cost optimization. So I am exploring the potential benefits of different solutions and what the potential options are for us to minimize and optimize the costs and our overall tax expenditures by bringing in these VMware solutions. Our goal is hosting multiple applications within one single host. The purpose is to reduce the number of physical servers and then to move from a physical to a virtual environment. This is the reason that we introduced the VMware solution. So VMware is basically purely on the virtual environment that we have adopted because we are moving out from a physical environment to a virtual environment where we have deployed some VMware licenses to manage our various systems applications on one single host. Of course, VMware is not an OS by itself. When it comes to the operating system, we are leveraging on the Red Hat virtual environment to be able to run and support the integration of multiple systems. So the VMware is being used to host the virtual environment. We have actually a combination of both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware virtualization solutions to create the needed environment to meet these goals.
Engineer Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Jan 7, 2020
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.
IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 13, 2019
We have several applications that are pillars of the business, such as ERP and SAP, which were previously in a Windows environment. Our system architects have been working on moving these applications to a Linux environment. This is why we are using this solution. At the point, all of our work with Red Hat is on-premises.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV, is a leading open standard enterprise virtualization management solution. This solution supports virtualization of servers and desktops using the same infrastructure and a single easy-to-use interface.
Because RHEV is based on open standards, it is vendor-independent and a lot more cost effective and flexible than proprietary solutions.
I have done some consulting where I used RHEV, taking on side jobs to run virtual machines in the financial industry for a startup. The last time I used RHEV was in my home lab, but that has been deprecated for a long time. Red Hat does not really support it, and they want you to move everything to their commercial virtualization platform. I never really stopped using RHEV from my lab's perspective and my own use.
Our main use cases for RHEV are that our legacy virtualization system became RHEV, which we use for the container environment, and we moved a lot of our workloads that were running on the VMware side. The impact of RHEV on workload consolidation in our data center started first with separating Linux and Windows workloads in our environment. I don't know what percentage of savings we achieved with the Linux migrations, but I can say that 40% of the virtualization and other costs were eliminated from our legacy virtualization side. For the Windows side, we also initiated a digital transformation project, moving a lot of Windows applications to the container side and the open-source software side, which resulted in almost 70% savings of our past expenses.
I work within the large Red Hat ecosystem. I started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and continue to use it. I have begun utilizing their virtualization and VM technology, aiming to replace VMware. Additionally, I use their Syslog. Most of these are installed on Red Hat Linux, including Zabbix, Wazoo, and Keycloak. Wazoo is a SIM solution.
We use the product primarily for creating and managing virtual machines.
They use various application and database servers, including small Oracle databases, Postgres databases, and others supporting Java applications. They also use servers like Tomcat and Apache.
Pretty much the same use cases you'd use any of the competing products like VMware or a Microsoft solution. It's a virtualization platform.
My company uses RHEV for the CRM tool we use.
We use the solution to deploy our OS.
We use this solution to build privacy clouds for our clients.
We primarily use the solution for hosting virtual machines. We're using RHEV virtualization and Red Hat on top of it.
The primary use of this solution is to implement ERP. If you want to have multiple servers on the same machine or if you do not require multiple machines it supports kernel-based virtual machines.
We use it for high volumes of computing. We use it for artificial intelligence and some big data analytics.
For any application that requires 100% uptime, 100% of data accessibility, I use these servers. Within our organization, there are roughly 100 employees using this solution.
We are a computer service company with several partnership. We are partners with HPE, Cisco, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, just to mention. We provide data centers solutions, with Hardware, Networking, Security, and Software. Also, we have our data center and we are offering cloud solutions for others. We are deploying Red Hat products for our cloud solutions. And our cloud is Red Hat Virtualization based, and soon we will have another cloud Red Hat OpenStack based. For the cloud solutions, we're in the marketing and sales stage. We are planning to build software solutions for clients in addition to what we will be offered publicly. We have a lot of clients in petroleum and banking sectors. For our clients, we are planning to offer them the best solutions for their activities on the cloud. We have two branches, our headquarter is in Tripoli and we have a branch in Benghazi. Between the two offices, there are around 28 engineers acting in providing solutions.
Enterprise Virtualization is for specific customers. We are an integrator and we have some customers who want to have in their data center or in their office a virtualization solution. This solution is perfect for that type of client.
We are a company who sells the solution to end users and we're a business partner with Red Hat. I'm an IT project consultant
In my company, I am working in a strategic department. My primary task in the company at the present time is looking into an overall roadmap for our organization to adopt a virtualization solution. We are doing this mostly for cost optimization. So I am exploring the potential benefits of different solutions and what the potential options are for us to minimize and optimize the costs and our overall tax expenditures by bringing in these VMware solutions. Our goal is hosting multiple applications within one single host. The purpose is to reduce the number of physical servers and then to move from a physical to a virtual environment. This is the reason that we introduced the VMware solution. So VMware is basically purely on the virtual environment that we have adopted because we are moving out from a physical environment to a virtual environment where we have deployed some VMware licenses to manage our various systems applications on one single host. Of course, VMware is not an OS by itself. When it comes to the operating system, we are leveraging on the Red Hat virtual environment to be able to run and support the integration of multiple systems. So the VMware is being used to host the virtual environment. We have actually a combination of both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware virtualization solutions to create the needed environment to meet these goals.
The primary use case was running an entire government payroll system.
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.
The primary use case of this solution is for making DNS, website work, DHCP, and other security functions like ID tables and other tools.
We have several applications that are pillars of the business, such as ERP and SAP, which were previously in a Windows environment. Our system architects have been working on moving these applications to a Linux environment. This is why we are using this solution. At the point, all of our work with Red Hat is on-premises.