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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Rackspace OpenStack

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ARackspace delivers OpenStack private clouds as-a-service, architected like a public cloud and designed for scale and service availability to any data center in the world. It includes a 99.99% API Uptime SLA.

    $0.12

    per GB/per month

    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.

    $999

    Per Year Per Hypervisor

    Pricing
    Rackspace OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
    Editions & Modules
    Rackspace OpenStack
    $0.12
    per GB/per month
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Rackspace OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Rackspace OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Rackspace OpenStack and Red Hat Virtualization
    Feature
    Rackspace OpenStack
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Rackspace OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Rackspace OpenStackRed Hat Virtualization (RHV)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Rackspace
    Need to get an application up and running, then I would say the open stack is a great place to test it out. Why spend time setting things up when you can let them do it for you? Many people also have experience with using Rackspace in some capacity so its an easier learning curve for many people.
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    Red Hat
    RHEV is well suited for organizations that need a cost-effective and flexible solution for their environment. As its vendor-independent software, easily install on any type of hardware. RHEV provides a GUI interface to manage the software, which makes the management of the software easier for the end-user. RHEV is best for non-production or less critical applications. RHEV can be easily integrated with other REDHAT software.
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    Pros
    Rackspace
    • Quick uptime
    • Simple Signup
    • Lots of options on what you need
    • Rackspace is a known company (not some unknown startup)
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    Red Hat
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Rackspace
    • Support does not seem to be what it use to be, use to be a solid 10 when dealing with them, now more like an 8
    • Pricing can be tricky to figure out
    • For some people too many options.
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    Red Hat
    • 1- RHVM API is pretty slow, especially after creating a VM it is not possible to retrieve the VM details (i.e VM's MAC Address) fast enough, where we need to place a pause in our Ansible Playbook, make the automation process slow.
    • 2- RHV is still using collected to monitor the hypervisors which is deviating from Red Hat policy for other RHEL based applications to use PCP to monitor, which is richer in features.
    • 3- It will be great if it is possible to patch the hypervisors using other tools such as satellite and not only via RHVM.
    • 4- In the past Red Hat used to present patches in the z release (i.e. 4.3.z), and features in the y release (i.e 4. y), but starting from 4.4 that is mixed together wherein the Z release you get both patches and features, that is not good because that requires a lot of time to test when we patch as it includes features as well.
    • 5- Engineering team has to be more reactive when new feature is requested.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Rackspace
    I looked into going with Amazon EC2, was very comparable in pricing, services, options, etc. and a bit cheaper too. Why I did not go with Amazon mainly has to do with knowing Rackspace and being familiar with them. It was easier for me to use a Rackspace product then go with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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    Red Hat
    RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower their overall costs and improve efficiency and profits and that's why RHEV is an excellent solution!
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    Return on Investment
    Rackspace
    • Quick setup allowed me to work on the application not setup of where it was going to run
    • Expand ability with a few clicks was a great help, no worrying about if I needed more "power", few clicks and I had it.
    • Tech support is hit or miss so that can be problematic and that was cause for concern and took time away from development
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    Red Hat
    • RHEV has provided a positive ROI as our customers are not experiencing as many outages during maintenances.
    • We have not experienced any catastrophic failures as a result of vsphere losing connection to the ntp.
    • There has been a level of stability in our environment that was not previously experienced with our previous vendor.
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