RHEV Reviews and Pricing

reviewer768786

IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 17, 2019

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Good support and a popular platform for our transition

Pros and Cons

"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"The support for this solution is very good."

"It would be better to have more patches, especially kernel-level updates, live and online so that we can keep the business up and running during this period."
"I have found that the stability is related to the upgrade cycle. I find the cycle a little bit annoying; if the system is constantly upgrading then it is very painful in terms of the operation."

What is our primary use case?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

There has to be more effort into closing the security vulnerabilities in this solution because we are facing daily attacks. We would like to have this done faster.

We would like to see live-patching on the systems, without having to require a reboot. It would be better to have more patches, especially kernel-level updates, live and online so that we can keep the business up and running during this period.

Improvements can be made to managing this solution, such as enhancements to the GUI.

There should be better integration with third-party tools.

Tools for scanning the hardware, such as the CPU and memory, would make life easier.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for about two years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have found that the stability is related to the upgrade cycle. I find the cycle a little bit annoying. If the system is constantly upgrading then it is very painful in terms of the operation.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In terms of scalability, it is handling the load that we have. I don't see any major problems.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

In addition to using this solution, we are trying to move our CRP solutions to our other platform, SUSE Linux. All of our business applications are moving to Red Hat, although we are getting better support with SUSE.

What other advice do I have?

We are not using the most current release of this solution because from our perspective, it is not mature enough yet.

Another example is that we are moving our Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, which is similar to Microsoft SharePoint, to Red Hat.

We have already moved all of our big data systems, as well as all of the digitalization systems to Red Hat. Our Splunk is also on Red Hat.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user82197

Business Development Staff at a integrator with 51-200 employees

May 30, 2017

RHEV continues to evolve and delivers functionality at low cost

We have been using RHEV in our production environment since 3.0 and have I to say that the product continues to evolve with each release. The current version is very stable and offers all of the features we require from a virtualisation infrastructure platform. I am especially impressed with the self provision user portal and the performance of Spice as a remote desktop protocol, although it would be nice to have better client end support (OSX, IOS etc).

One of the biggest lacking features is the ability to replicate virtual machine configurations to another RHEV environment for DR. Our development team addressed this by producing a python script which calls the REST API and replicates VM configuration allowing us to restore data into prebuilt VMs. www.quru.com/rvsr

Overall we are very happy with RHEV and have deployed a number of roll outs to our UK based clients. Looking forward to the next release.

Disclaimer: the company I work for is partners with several vendors including Red Hat

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it_user4401Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Mar 5, 2014

I like at RHEV the feature called Transparent Huge Pages, which allows Linux to dynamically create large memory pages for virtual machines and improve performance by reducing the number of times that memory is accessed. Another useful feature is a power user portal that allows users to provision VMs, define templates, administer and customize environments. RHEV 3.0 and the newer versions have scalability improvements. As far as I know, they support around 160 logical CPUs and 2 TB per host. You said that you are very happy with RHEV, I am also happy with it.

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it_user334560

CIO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 11, 2015

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It's possible to OEM and create a product with Ovirt as the main component.

Pros and Cons

"If you have a heterogenous data centre that is specially focused on Linux platforms, this is safe money, and good if you are looking for automation."

"They don't know how to sell their great products and don’t really seem to be interested in taking care of their partners who trust and really know their products."

Valuable Features:

The Ovirt component has flexibility, and is easy to perform integration within a heterogenous data centre manager with OpenStack or ManageIQ.

Improvements to My Organization:

It has the possibility to OEM and create a great product with Ovirt as the main component.

Room for Improvement:

It needs a better administrator KB, similar to what Citrix XenDesktop has. Also, they don't know how to sell their great products and don’t really seems to be interested in taking care of their partners who trust and really know their products.

Other Advice:

If you have a heterogenous data centre that is specially focused on Linux platforms, this is safe money, and good if you are looking for automation.

It also offers great integration with DevOps tools.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. We have a joint OEM product based on the Ovirt component.

it_user8784

Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2014

Reduced costs by reducing amount of servers

For how long have you used this solution? - 1 year

Which features are most valuable? - Live migration

Can you give an example of how this solution has improved the way your organization functions? -We where able to reduce the amount of servers. This has reduced our costs significantly.

What areas of this solution have room for improvement? - The interface is sometimes not logical and previous versions where not so stable but luckily this has been mostly resolved.

Did you encounter any issues with deployment, stability or scalability? If so, please describe. - Stability and bugs in previous 2.x versions

Did you previously use a different solution and if so, why did you switch? - No this was our first virtual platform

Before choosing this solution, did you evaluate other options? If so, which ones? - The choice was clear for us; it had to be open-source with commercial support

How would you rate the level of customer service and technical support? - The support we got so far from redhat as customers was great. You would probably not get better elsewhere

Was the initial setup straightforward or complex? In what ways? - Straightforward. Yes there is a great guide online at redhat on how to install this

Did you implement it in-house or through a vendor team? If through a vendor, how would you rate their work? - We installed it in-house as we are reseller and integrator

What is your ROI on this solution? - There is no investment in this product. As a reseller we can use it to test for free we pay every year a fixed cost as partner.

What was your original setup cost for this solution and what is your day-to-day cost of using it? - Free for us

What advice would you give to others looking into this solution? - I would say give it a look if you are looking for a virutalization platform. Most of the things can be done with rhev and the cost is much lower then with other commercial solutions. Since version 3 this product is mature and since version 3.1 most glitches where removed.

Disclosure: The company I work for is partners with several vendors (including Red Hat) - http://www.open-future.be/solutions/partners

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user140712Consultant at a tech consulting company

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May 22, 2016

Patrik, I do not think you are allowed to use NFR licenses for production.

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it_user9747

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: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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?

it_user1128

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.

Pros and Cons

"Performance and security are key advantages of RHEV."

"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."

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: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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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it_user1065

Senior Manager of Data Center at a integrator with 51-200 employees

Jul 3, 2012

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One of the best open source virtualization techniques with enhanced security, performance, and cost advantage

Pros and Cons

"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor has robust virtualization management features with proven enterprise security and performance."

"Load balancing not very efficient and fails to utilize and distribute network resources."

Valuable Features:

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

Room for Improvement:

Few cons of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are1) Need to create virtual machine environment per node 2) Issues with clustering 3) Load balancing not very efficient and fails to utilize and distribute network resources.

Other Advice:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is an enterprise virtualization solution made by Red Hat. It has been designed for intergration with Virtualization manager with servers. It has robust virtualization management features with proven enterprise security and performance. This Hypervisor is basically based on Kernel Based Virtual Machine. It has inbuilt features such as live migration, high availability (which manages server availability), and zero downtime for the virtual machines.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.