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.
"It is very stable."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications."
"It's a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"Stability and speed are the most valuable aspects."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The scalability is good."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
"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."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
"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."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"The solution should be more secure."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The solution is quite expensive."
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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