We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."We also use Ansible. Ansible is a wonderful tool for automation. We use it to automate our patching. We use Ansible to get playbooks to take care of anything that's manual."
"We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Git apps in our closed environment to develop and run scenarios."
"Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work."
"The graphical user interface is useful. However, we prefer to use the command line as we can do many more things."
"The best system I've ever used is Red Hat, in terms of its ability and consistency of the operating system. Other than that, the vast majority of applications that I had, you can deploy Red Hat with the support of the vast majority of applications. We don't have many issues with the OS, the support is very good."
"In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we use Red Hat Satellite as part of all the patching and deployment, even from on-premises and AWS, and that's been really helpful since it is one product that can be used in a hybrid environment."
"I like its integrations. I would put it higher than any other Linux version when it comes to availability. Its integrations with different applications and solutions are the best. We work with a lot of clients that use RHEL, and we could easily and quickly integrate any cloud solution, virtualization solution, storage solution, or software with the RHEL system. It is better than the other solutions we have worked with."
"The security it provides is one of the most important features, as are the support and the documentation. The latter helps me to do everything."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution. It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"When there is downtime from a system admin perspective, this solution could improve how they communicate why this down time is happening."
"The solution should provide demos so that users can learn to use it and improve their environments."
"The knowledge base provided by Red Hat exists, but I find it difficult to navigate. The information seems scattered and hard to find."
"Support for older versions of the operating system could be improved. If people can't afford to upgrade, or if they have servers that are outdated, they need to be able to provide back-field support for those."
"Its user interface could be better for people who want to use the GUI. They can provide a better user interface with more features."
"The operating system might not be able to handle big scientific problems which require a highly parallel system."
"Large application vendors may not have certified RHEL, or they have certified an older version. Most of the large application vendors are unfamiliar with the versioning that RHEL introduced, which I strongly support. They will support a given sub-version up to a point, not realizing that the sub-versions are essentially additive."
"In the past and with older versions, you couldn't expand the root file system without rebooting the server or restarting the operating system. That is something that they have actually corrected now, which is great. They corrected that issue somewhere around RHEL 7."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Windows 10, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and KVM.
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