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Infrastructure Architect

Rating: 5 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat Virtualization is used to host virtual machines for our telecommunications applications.

Pros

  • 1- It easy to upload qcow2 images from the browser.
  • 2- It is easy to automate repetitive tasks with Ansible using RHVM API.
  • 3- It is easy to patch the hypervisors.

Cons

  • 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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
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Verified User
Professional in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat Virtualization
8 years of experience

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Rating: 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This was used in an organisation which I was working for, using a client-server architecture. This led to a more consistent environment and prevented *snowflake* desktops, which could be hard to diagnose issues on and provide support for. This also increased security and ultimately ended up saving a significant amount money for the company.

Pros

  • Standardisation where provisioning the environment became repeatable and predictable.
  • Easier debugging and understanding the client system.
  • Improved security and centrally managed.

Cons

  • Ran into a regression when updating firmware for IGEL
  • Desktop froze and became non responsive on a few occasions.
  • Server crashed and took down all the clients in the Thin setup.

Likelihood to Recommend

  • Well suited for very large organisations with a wide variety of departments.
  • Less useful for a single group of developers where the command line is mostly used.
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Emile Swarts
Developer in Engineering at Made Tech (11-50 employees)
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Red Hat Virtualization
2 years of experience
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