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Why Choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Over VMware or Microsoft?

By Paul Rubens (Send Email)
May 11, 2011

Why would anyone use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) instead of VMware's or Microsoft's virtualization technologies?

Talk to Navin Thadani, Red Hat's senior director, virtualization, and he'll tell you that RHEV's attractions are that it offers high-performance server virtualization, it's scalable, and it's very secure. And, perhaps most importantly, it offers "solid economics for customers." What does that mean? It's less expensive than Hyper-V and VMware, in other words.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) doesn't seem to sell RHEV based on the features it offers, and that's probably because it lacks a few key ones. Despite Thadani promising as long ago as February 2010 that "you will be able to do an apples-for-apples feature comparison between us and VMware," RHEV is still quite a few pieces of fruit short of a full picnic basket vis a vis VMware.

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What's the attraction? In the developed markets of North America and Europe, Thadani said that although VMware has made big inroads, it has tended to be in enterprises wanting to virtualize their non-mission-critical Windows servers. "Now the CIO's office realizes the value in virtualization, they are looking at the Linux side of the business, and they see some super alternatives to VMware, like RHEV. They trust Red Hat, as we saved them millions of dollars when they moved from UNIX to Linux."

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It's easy to forget that RHEV has been around for only 18 months or so, but it's clear that Red Hat has got a great deal more work to do to convince large numbers of potential customers to choose it over VMware or Hyper-V.

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rhevsh

This is a command-line interface for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. To use it, you need the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the RHEV API.

To install, do:

  easy_install rhevsh 

Then to use it, try:

  $ rhevsh --help   $ rhevsh 

Go there...
https://bitbucket.org/geertj/rhevsh/wiki/Home

Why Choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Over VMware or Microsoft?

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REST API Guide

I found 2 Apps in my Fedora 14 Repo's and installed them both. There was no GUI App to setup your Virtual Machines with. So, I ran the "easy_install rhevsh" Command. Still no GUI. So, I probably wont be Switching from Virtual Box until they make a GUI App for setting up RHEV. Sounds interesting, for the future though...

Don