Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix vs. Red Hat Virtualization

Well suited for on-prem virtual workloads

Incentivized

Red Hat Virtualization is suitable for small implementation and hosting VMs. However, when you start asking for additional features or enhancements, the engineering team is not the flexible as other engineering teams in Red Hat. It is very likely they will not accept adding features or in the best case. They wouldn't commit to a plan when it is possible to be available.

Incentivized

• Private cloud in the 500-2500 VM range
• K8S on top of these
• Traditional workloads on these as well
• Flexibility and scalability to start reasonably small and scale up quite big

Incentivized

• RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
• Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
• OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.

Incentivized

• Intersight deployments can be bit tricky and room for improvements
• Service profile type of deployments

Incentivized

• Documentation of RHEV needs more improvement.
• RHEV GUI needs a lot of improvements in some versions of RHEV, GUI will not work properly (shows incorrect details of VM ).
• Need fast rollout of patch releases.
• Need good linux Knowledge to manage the RHEVM.

Incentivized

Simplified Management and Operations:

Cisco Intersight and Nutanix Prism Central work together to provide a single pane of glass for managing both the physical infrastructure and the hyperconverged environment.

This reduces complexity and the need for specialized IT skills.

Automated Deployment: Zero-touch deployments are a key feature, especially for remote and edge environments.

Cisco Intersight policies allow for automated bare-metal firmware and OS installation, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.

Incentivized

It is much better , faster and created for high availability work loads that are dynamic to deploy and grow based on need and business demand.

We have use vSAN deployed prior to this new solution, and we prefer Cisco solution by a large margin to accommodate our growing requirements.

We are always watching other products and keeping ahead of the technology.

Incentivized

Red Hat Virtualization is the best enterprise-level virtualization software for an organization that needs cost-effective and flexible solutions for its environment. We can easily integrate RHEV with other Red Hat software like OpenStack...etc. RHEV is highly customizable software, which helps us to customize our environment. Since RHEV is an open-source tool, we can install it on any hardware. There is no proprietary dependency.

Incentivized

• We had a positive ROI as the bundle pricing of HW+SW was at par or slightly lesser than what we were already incurring with our legacy solution

Incentivized

• It has had an extremely positive impact on my overall business and has allowed me to utilize and leverage it as an offering to my clients.
• It's an extremely solid, robust, and reliable product built off of KVM Virtualization technology.
• Less expensive solution than VMware and includes more features!

Incentivized