RHEV Reviews

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.

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.

RHEV hyper visor is a cost effective solution for virtualization. Its work on kernel base virtualization systems. Its usage keep growing in the market.

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

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.

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.

We use the product primarily for creating and managing virtual machines.

The product has benefitted our organization in terms of cost savings and efficient resource utilization by centrally creating and managing virtual machines.

While the platform has proven beneficial, it could be improved in some areas. Specifically, enhancements in managing virtual machine migrations, cloning, and the creation of different VMs could further optimize its functionality.

I've worked with RHEV for around three years.

I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten. 

The platform is scalable, allowing for the installation of multiple nodes. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

The technical support services are good. 

RHEV offers pricing based on socket pair per-physical-machine licensing model. 

One aspect to note is that the platform's disaster recovery needs to be managed manually, underscoring the importance of having hypervisors on different physical servers for redundancy.

Given that RHEV is nearing the end of its product life cycle, I would advise exploring alternative solutions. However, it remains an enterprise-grade solution, akin to other Red Hat products, and is well-suited for virtualization needs in an enterprise environment.

Overall, I rate it an eight out of ten. 

We use the solution to deploy our OS.

The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing.

The solution should be made more user-friendly.

I have been working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) for five years.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is quite a stable solution.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a scalable solution. Many users are using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in our organization, and we plan to increase the number of users in the future.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's technical support is customer-friendly.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's initial setup is straightforward and much easier.

Two engineers are required to deploy and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Overall, I rate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization a six out of ten.

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