We performed a comparison between RHEV and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VMware VSphere got better user reviews. One major difference between the two solutions is that users say that RHEV’s scalability is not great.
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"We'd like it if it would be possible on Red Hat Virtualization to possibly connect two or three VMs to the same disk."
"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."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"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."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"The UI should be more interactive with additional features."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The price could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"It could be more scalable."
RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 31 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 reviews. RHEV is rated 7.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of RHEV writes "The solution is scalable and affordable, but it lacks features, and it is not easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". RHEV is most compared with KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and Citrix Hypervisor. See our RHEV vs. VMware vSphere report.
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