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.
"I can control and manage everything. I know everything that's cooking inside. This is the best part for me."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"It is very stable."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The scalability is good."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"This solution could be more secure."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"The support is tricky in a few places. We're facing some challenges within Malaysia where we don't really have the system integrators available who can provide extended support. When we need personnel on-site, we can't get them."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. RHEV is rated 7.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". 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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