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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SolusVM

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASolusVM from Plesk, a Swiss company, allows the user to Manage OpenVZ, Xen and KVM virtual machines from one central point.

    $3

    per month

    Pricing
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SolusVM
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Slave Only
    $3.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $10.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SolusVM
    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
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SolusVM
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Red Hat Virtualization and SolusVM
    Feature
    Red Hat Virtualization
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SolusVM
    -
    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SolusVM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)SolusVM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Plesk International GmbH
    SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.
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    Pros
    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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    Plesk International GmbH
    • Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
    • Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
    • Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
    • Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze
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    Cons
    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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    Plesk International GmbH
    • Less collection of OS templates
    • It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
    • Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Plesk International GmbH
    SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Plesk International GmbH
    • SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
    • It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
    • It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers
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