We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"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 very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
"RHEV can improve by keeping pace with new features and new enhancements. They should not be halted or delayed innovation because over the past quarter the enhancements have not been as fast as they have been previously."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"We hope that Red Hat can produce a paradigm edition. We are looking for paradigm computing and paradigm storage. Its scalability can be improved. It is not easy to scale, and we hope that Red Hat can provide a more scalable system. They should also provide local service and support. Our customers are looking for a good software vendor to provide professional services."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"I heard that there are big differences between Red Hat eight and seven, but it's still quite difficult for me to judge it. I found it a bit more difficult to manage than version seven, which was much easier. In term of features, though, it is still not yet clear which is better. I have no clear idea of which features need to be changed at the moment."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while RHEV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V and KVM, whereas RHEV is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and Hyper-V. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. RHEV report.
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