RHEV Reviews

Name: RHEV
Brand: Red Hat
Rating: 4 (32 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

32 reviews
76% willing to recommend

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV, is a leading open standard enterprise virtualization management solution. This solution supports virtualization of servers and desktops using the same infrastructure and a single easy-to-use interface.

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RHEV is the #10 ranked solution in best Server Virtualization Software. PeerSpot users give RHEV an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. RHEV is most commonly compared to Proxmox VE: RHEV vs Proxmox VE. RHEV is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 56% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 50% of all views.

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Sujeet-Kumar

Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure at Path Infotech ltd

Jan 10, 2024

Management of RHEV is not as easy as VMware. Some features do not work. The product does not provide features similar to VMware’s VMotion. After creating the cluster, the VM is moved to another node if we move down. However, the VM does not move the parent node automatically. It has to be moved manually. VMware moves it automatically. RHEV moves it to the parent node only if we restart. Everything can be handled in VMware through the GUI. However, in RHEV, some things can be managed through UI, and others cannot. We have to troubleshoot and use CLI. A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware.

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Rami Abuaus

Cloud Architect at Nokia Solutions

Aug 16, 2022

We use this solution to build privacy clouds for our clients We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software. We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present. We…

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reviewer2356185

UNIX System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Mar 11, 2024

The cons are that you have extensive third-party support for Microsoft and VMware platforms that don't exist in the Red Hat world. Red Hat has some partners, but if your company uses something that backs up VMware on a block level, for example, those backup products often won't have support for Red Hat. They might just say to back up all your VMs as if they were individual clients, which isn't as efficient, even though it still works. The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals. The framework is all there because the API is open and well-documented – that's what vendors who support VMware use. They could write their software to work against RHEV, but they're not investing in doing it for the Red Hat solution. So, that's the biggest difference between VMware and Red Hat. Microsoft's third-party support for Hyper-V is fairly decent.

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RHEV market share

As of March 2024, the market share of RHEV in the Server Virtualization Software category stands at 3.4%, marking an increase of 45.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

Room for Improvement

"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."

Pricing

"It's a budget product as far as I'm concerned. It's way cheaper than any of its competitors. The only thing cheaper than Red Hat is that the people who take the Red Hat code clone it and then self-support it."
"Price-wise, RHEV is okay, in my opinion."
"Its price depends on the use cases."

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