[Users] oVirt or RHEV ?

[Martijn Grendelman]

Hi René,

Sorry for top-posting, but I just wanted to say that this was a really
helpful answer, and it actually made me rethink yesterday's decision:-).
Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Martijn.


René Koch schreef op 6-2-2014 19:53:
> Hi Martijn,
> 
> That's a good question and not too easy to answer.
> I work as a Solution Architect and my company is selling both - RHEV and
> oVirt consulting and support. The reason for doing both is, that we want
> to give users a choice which solution fits better.
> 
> The main benefits (in my opinion) of RHEV are:
> 
> - Support with SLAs
> Red Hat provides support for RHEV with service levels. For oVirt you
> have to wait until someone of the developers or community members helps
> you on the mailing list or in IRC (or you buy support from a company
> with provides it).
> 
> - Updates for each release for 3 years
> You receive for all releases (RHEV 3.1, 3.2,...) 3 years of support and
> updates. oVirt provides bugfix releases for the actual release (so you
> want get bugfix updates for 3.2 anymore, you have to upgrade to 3.3).
> For me this is the biggest advantage of RHEV.
> 
> - Red Hat Knowledge Base
> Red Hat Knowledge Base is one of the best knowledge bases and it helps
> you greatly solving issues and gives useful tips. I use the knowledge
> base a lot and wouldn't want to miss it for any Red Hat product.
> 
> - Stability
> RHEV is tested by a qa team and the releases are really stable. oVirt
> has newer features which are less tested. I upgrade oVirt release only
> to .1 releases (e.g. 3.2.x -> 3.3.1), not to .0 to avoid issues.
> 
> - Guest agents
> Guest agents and RHEV tools are packaged for RHEL and Windows guests and
> are working fine. When using oVirt you miss some of the functionality of
> Windows guest tools or have to copy it from different locations. For
> other os'es it doesn't matter if using RHEV or oVirt.
> 
> - Application / os support
> You should consider if your applications and operating systems are
> supported in oVirt as well. All apps certified for RHEL are certified
> for RHEV as well.
> 
> 
> Main benefits of oVirt:
> 
> - Newest features
> oVirt gives you the latest and greatest. So it will take some time until
> this feature is available in RHEV, too (due to testing).
> 
> - No subscription coasts
> You don't have to buy subscriptions for an oVirt environment, so it
> saves money. But on the other hand it can also cost you more money, if
> you have to spend a lot of time in troubleshooting or with upgrading
> (especially with possible upgrading issues) or having down times of your
> environment.
> 
> 
> It's not too easy to say if you should use RHEV or oVirt.
> I hope I could help you making a decision with my explanations above.
> You could also have both - a RHEV setup for production vms and an oVirt
> setup for development and qa vms.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> René
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 16:06 +0100, Martijn Grendelman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This may be the wrong place to ask, but I'm looking for input to form an
>> opinion on an "oVirt or RHEV" question within my company.
>>
>> I have been running oVirt for about 5 months now, and I'm quite
>> comfortable with its features and maintenance procedures. We are now
>> planning to build a private virtualization cluster for hosting clients'
>> applications as well as our own. Some people in the company are
>> questioning whether we should buy RHEV, but at this point, I can't see
>> the benefits.
>>
>> Can anyone on this list shed a light on when RHEV might be a better
>> choice than oVirt? What are the benefits? The trade-offs?
>>
>> I am looking for pragmatic, real-world things, not marketing mumbo
>> jumbo. That, I can get from redhat.com ;-)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martijn.
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