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."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"The price is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's much cheaper than, for example, VMware."
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"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."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"In comparison to VMware, this solution isn't as stable. We're testing it right now, and we're not trusting the stability of the product."
"This solution could be more secure."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"It is expensive."
"The cost could always be lower."
"The solution should be more secure."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
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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