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Red Hat Virtualization vs. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

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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

    VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud brings together VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX into a natively-integrated stack of virtual compute, virtual storage, and virtual networking built upon IBM Bluemix bare metal servers.N/A
    Pricing
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    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)VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Red Hat Virtualization and VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Feature
    Red Hat Virtualization
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning7.910 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Management console7.310 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup7.29 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration6.910 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.99 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
    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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    IBM
    Multiple capabilities that VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud provides are excellent and very much involved in secure data migration and management, easy to monitor server performance and the virtual capability is on top and the data analytics using the platform are provided in real-time and the reports are the most useful, especially on the critical situations within the business development.
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    Pros
    Red Hat
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    IBM
    • Dashboard understanding is easy.
    • The ability to handle big data.
    • Data extraction tools are very active.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
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    IBM
    • Only setting the advanced functionalities.
    • The basic knowledge can not full manipulate the platform.
    • To create reports for big data is sometime very turf.
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
    • Live virtual capability are excellent.
    • Great tool for the huge volume of data management and migration.
    • Data accessibility is faster and the analytical capability is amazing.
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