Comments on: What is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization?

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:06:23 +0000

Competition, choice, and free markets are great.

Making false claims about your product, not so much.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:35:17 +0000

I can’t agree more with @Franco. According to Eric there is no need for multiple OS, smartphones, DB, etc. IMHO there MUST to be many virt vendors as capitalism dictates, with compatibility and standards.

VMware is good, but they need to keep evolving. Without competition, they will be another Microsoft and sooner than later will start to abuse their customers (just check the EULA, VSPP or policies: VMware Forcing Third Parties to NOT Sell Products for Free ESXi).

By: Franco

Franco — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:05:47 +0000

Well, we also should only use MS Windows don’t you think? Why use different O.S.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:19:40 +0000

Cool Story Bro

FUD, Scaremongering and Trolling worthy of Microsoft.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:08:11 +0000

BTW vmware is redhat release so all under one hat

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:32:37 +0000

Dr. Noisewater,

Thanks for your recent contributions to the RHEV discussion here on VCritical. I appreciate the fact that you have actually used the Red Hat product — unlike many of the commentators.

Eric

By: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:42:26 +0000

Having Linux expertise doesn’t help a whole lot with RHEV, since the manager is on Windows and uses MSSQL or ODBC to manage its configuration DB, the naming and layout of ondisk VM assets is impenetrable and inscrutable, the product itself is full of tons of bugs, and support is weak unless you call during the Israeli business day.

Maybe in a year VMware will have some actual competition, which is healthy and should help keep pricing pressure in place. But at this timestamp, it really is no contest.

I’d recommend a Ganeti cluster over RHEV at this point, if your org isn’t too large and ossified to trust opensource for that purpose.

By: FatMin

FatMin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:45:01 +0000

Overview of RedHat Virtualization…

What exactly is going on nowadays in the world of Redhat Linux virtualization anyways since Xen has gone the way of the Dodo.Stumbled across this nice overview on another virtualization blog. There are actually several articles on this blog on……

By: Dick Davies

Dick Davies — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:31:15 +0000

They may not be feature complete (in fact I’d be amazed if they were anywhere near at this stage), but it doesn’t hurt to have a tiered offering. As a sysadmin I have a need for dozens of small dev. VMs, which don’t need all the enterprise features of vSphere all the time. We also have a lot of Linux expertise, which we increasingly find doesn’t translate to the VMware stack.

As far as customers go, I hear IBM run their Cloudburst stack on RHEV. Just a FYI.

Looking forward to some tech comparisons.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:13:30 +0000

Yes, I revved up RHEV, but I think the head gasket blew. Time permitting, I plan to write up my findings.

RHEV is being positioned as an alternative to VMware — same features less cost. Totally false.

It would be great to have your feedback as we go along — good or bad.