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    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 vSOM (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVSOM from VMware was a solution that delivered vSphere server virtualization, and also added capacity management and performance monitoring features. It is discontinued as of February 2019. Users were migrated to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vRealize Operations Standard.N/A
    Pricing
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
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    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    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 vSOM (discontinued)
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Red Hat Virtualization and VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Feature
    Red Hat Virtualization
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning7.910 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Management console7.310 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration6.910 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.99 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)VMware vSOM (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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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    Discontinued Products
    Vsphere Operation Management is suitable for automating the process of bringing up an alternate data center in case of a disaster. It also is a great way for testing your readiness of disaster. You have the ability to bring up a server in a "bubble" for testing. This way you can show your admins how the failover process will work.
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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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    • The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration
    • VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive
    • Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process
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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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    • The installation of VSOM is very tedious
    • It uses an MS SQL database
    • It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter
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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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    Discontinued Products
    vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial.
    • The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially.
    • Support for VSOM is terrific.
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