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.
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"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."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
"We'd like it if it would be possible on Red Hat Virtualization to possibly connect two or three VMs to the same disk."
"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"It could be more scalable."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"It's an expensive solution."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
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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