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HPE Helion vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Helion
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
25th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat OpenShift
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Server Virtualization Software (3rd), Container Management (4th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (2nd), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of HPE Helion is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 6.3%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift6.3%
HPE Helion1.4%
Other92.3%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

it_user568056 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Indra
It provides access to private and public clouds. I would like to be able to select the best private cloud.
I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost. If I need to put an application on the cloud, I would like to know which provider to use. I would like to know the best option for this application.
AA
Operation Director at Zaintech
Platform has transformed our cloud into a secure, unified home for diverse modern applications
One of the best features of Red Hat OpenShift is that it has the catalog, the application catalog, and the operator hub, which allows us to deploy things easily and straightforward without going into a lot of hassles. This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools. Red Hat OpenShift also provides virtualization capabilities, and I am currently working with Zain to make a project where we will convert F5 appliances to virtual machines and to manage them through Red Hat virtualization, OVE. Red Hat OpenShift is a unique platform because it provides the features for both worlds, containerization, and VMs at the same time, requiring you to learn one skillset in order to manage all of this at the same time. In the beginning, our cloud depended only on virtual machines, so I introduced this to our management to start to work with microservices and with containerization. This was adapted in our cloud, providing us the capability to sell more of these features and to reduce the hardware requirement by about thirty percent, following the trends of using containerization for all modern applications. In addition, it reduced the time to develop and to deploy a new application; all we need is using Jenkins for CI/CD. Once we commit any code, it gets triggered, and it will implement the new container in a very flexible and easy way, within seconds. This decreased the time to market and increased agility, allowing us to capture new opportunities very fast.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Helion Being backed by a vendor (HPE) rather than vanilla openstack gives us a little more confidence that the product is now at a level of maturity where we are happy to start consuming open technologies."
"It's improved the delivery of services to our clients, and I believe my clients get new business and better performance."
"We have many more services, including self-service, and we don't have to call IT and wait for weeks or months for service, which is the biggest benefit for our business."
"The most valuable feature is our access to private and public clouds."
"HPE Helion provides access to world-class personnel and skill sets, and their ability to perform repeatedly at a high standard provides a positive experience."
"OpenShift offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface for cluster management, making it more accessible for administrators."
"There is a quick deployment of the application, and we can scale out efficiently with the help of OpenShift."
"OpenShift offers robust tools for monitoring application traffic, allowing us to analyze client requests and other business-related metrics."
"Our small team developed and rolled out everything to production in a short time, mostly thanks to OpenShift."
"The concept of containers and scaling on demand is a feature I appreciate the most about Red Hat OpenShift."
"OpenShift is more enterprise-oriented, offers good support, and provides integration with multiple solutions."
"We want to build a solution that can be deployable to any cloud because of client requirements and OpenShift allows us to do this."
"In my experience, the best feature Red Hat OpenShift offers is that the environment is easy to use, meaning that it is easy for the configuration and the management in the different environments and provides easy visibility that allows me to watch the reports for the leadership in the company."
 

Cons

"Some improvements I think are needed are greater stability and more up to date packages."
"With a lot of the services we use, we need a single dashboard that could do more."
"We need improvements for more hybrid use. Right now, the system is very focused on pay-as-you-go cloud services, and our customers are looking for more a hybrid use."
"I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be good as there is much competition, and many companies and organizations are looking to reduce costs."
"OpenShift's storage management could be better."
"OpenShift could improve by providing the ability to integrate with public cloud platforms. This way we can easily use the services that these platforms offer. For instance, Amazon AWS. However, all the three major hyper-scalers solutions offer excellent DevOps and CI/CD tooling. If there was an easy way to integrate with them it would be beneficial. We need a way to easily integrate with the monitoring and dashboard services that they provide."
"Its virtual upgrades are time-consuming."
"We experienced issues around desktop security, which stopped us from implementing a new feature that had been developed."
"One of the improvements for Red Hat OpenShift which I have problems with is that the changes from version to version could be better."
"Room for improvement is around the offerings that come as a bundle with the container platform. The packaging of the platform should be done such that customers do not have to purchase additional licenses."
"The solution only offers support for one server."
"We want to see better alerting, especially in critical situations requiring immediate intervention. Until we go to the dashboard, it can be challenging to quickly recognize that there's an issue for us to deal with. Therefore, a popup of the event or a tweaked GUI to catch our attention when it's alerting would be a welcome change. Everything else is good. We don't need any additional features. From the operations perspective, as an administrator, there is nothing concerning."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Depending on the extent of the product use, licenses are available for a range of time periods, and are renewable at the end of the period."
"We had a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) license for all our servers' operating systems. By having multiple Red Hat products together, you can negotiate costs and leverage on having a sort of enterprise license agreement to reduce the overall outlay or TCO."
"The cost is quite high."
"The licensing cost for OpenShift is expensive when compared to other products. RedHat also charges you additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing is standard; the solution isn't particularly expensive or affordable."
"OpenShift is really good when we need to start, but once we get to a certain scale, it becomes too expensive."
"It's expensive. It may be cheaper to invest in building Vanilla Kubernetes, especially if security is not the number one motivation or requirement. Of course, that's difficult, and in some business areas, such as banking, that's not something you can put as a second priority. In other situations, a Vanilla Kubernetes with a sufficiently strong team can be cheaper and almost as effective."
"This solution is fairly expensive but comes at an average cost compared to other solutions in the market."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise58
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with OpenShift?
One area for improvement in Red Hat OpenShift is during upgrades, as there is currently no option to revert to a previous version if vulnerabilities or issues arise. I believe that providing such a...
 

Also Known As

HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion
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Sample Customers

ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
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