# Red Hat Virtualization Reviews **Vendor:** Red Hat **Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Red Hat Virtualization Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) provides server and desktop virtualization tools ## Red Hat Virtualization Pros & Cons **What users dislike:** - Users find the **steep learning curve** of Red Hat Virtualization challenging, making administration more difficult compared to ESXi. (1 reviews) ## Red Hat Virtualization Reviews ### 1. Excellent for server virtualization up to the basic and smoother **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felix V. | Technical Support Representative, Computer Networking, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Most the easy compatibility with any server and the versatility of the environment **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** is one of the hardest certifications to obtain, but it is the most useful **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** The easy way to test a server software without get many risk ### 2. The Virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vital C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** We trying RH Virtualization such alternative to ESXi. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** It's a little bit more hard to administer them ESXi. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tha addoption of RH Virtualization was by cost ### 3. Virtual system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James D. | Software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Execute high performance applications and software, connection with server and PC system for testing, quantity control of main system resources and test control. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Orient system for specific applications, connect networks with different versions of GNU. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** Perform high performance tests with virtual system, configure what you need. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stability tests with virtual system and connect extra services of RedHat, connect external systems for high performance tests. ### 4. As an Enterprise Architet, I deal with the virtualization capabilities of Red Hat on a daily basis. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ron G. | Infrastructure Architect/Capacity Planner, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Red Hat allows for an easy, standardized image to be quickly applied into our cloud environment; typically in less than an hour. This allows us to provide prompt delivery of approved, architected solutions for our user community. The users can get their applications up and running in a day versus several weeks using a standard process. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Sometimes, more specialized needs are cumbersome to implement into a cloud environment, often requiring multiple phases, which slows down the delivery SLA for the user community. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** Get the Red Hat virtualization, your customers and users will be thrilled a=by the delivery responsiveness. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Red Hat virtualization allows us to quickly implement and adjust environments for our users so that they can implement their development, testing and production environment with the minimum delay. This speedy turn-around makes for 'happier' customers and improved delivery of mission critical applications, ### 5. We use Red Hat Desktop Virtualization to manage both our servers and desktops **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Duane B. | Independent Contractor, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** We use Red Hat Desktop Virtualization in an environment where we need to access both servers and desktops from a single workstation. This product allows us configure the amount of resources the virtual server or desktop receives based on the needs of those using the server/workstation. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** The configuration can be a little daunting for those new to running virtual servers, but once my team and I got a little practice of setting up the servers we became quite proficient at the creation and deployment of the servers/workstations. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** I highly recommend this product if you need to dynamically manage the resources available to virtual servers and workstations. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run multiple servers off of the same hardware, but need to keep the actual servers from interfering with each other. ### 6. Secure, enterprise support and extremely reliable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Non Executive Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** It is as solid as a rock, installation is quick and the OS is secure **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Relatively high cost to purchase and maintain It is not easy to integrate in a Windows AD domain environment, kerberos configuration is pretty tricky **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed a secure and supported operating system for core business applications. ### 7. A complete virtualization solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flavio S. | Cyber Security, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2016 ### 8. Exciting but lacks respect **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivas G. | Senior Software Developer at Dell, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Ease of use Troubleshooting is a lot easier given you have some experience with Linux. Customization is easier. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** You need someone with Linux experience to use this. Constant comparison with VMWare products/features. Rate at which features and product is getting matured. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** It gets most of your virtualization related work done. If you have some experience on Linux then supporting/hosting the software is easy. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I help solve customer problems. Most of the times at least in India, customer interest on RHEV is for dev,/test environment. Unless RedHat finds better way to market its product its difficult for folks like me to make a customer believe in the product.. Some of the popular requests have been around. Security, Connectivity, HA and DR. ### 9. easy, fast, open, and cost-effective Desktop Virtualization **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 亚东 . | Software Engineer, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** It is very simple to migrate [virtual machines] from other hypervisor platforms into REV. In addition to the desktop virtualization, REV 2.2 introduces a number of other new features. Chief among them is the ability to import virtual machines from platforms, such as those offered by VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. To this end, REV uses the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), an open standard for virtual machine images. This is also the first release to include the V2V virtual machine conversion software, which can convert VMware or Xen virtual machines created within Red Hat Enterprise Linux into KVM virtual machines. REV also includes a data warehouse for monitoring the performance and usage of virtual machines, the data from which can be piped into most other SQL-based business intelligence tools. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Security and performance is a challenge for this product. the interface could be more friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** no special recommendations. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** desktop visualization ### 10. Simple & Effective Virtualization **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Red Hat Desktop Virtualization is simple compared to other platforms. I really like that the program is completely open source. This product is affordable and powerful - the ideal solution. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** There is nothing that I dislike about the Red Hat Desktop Virtualization program. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** Definitely give this program a try, it is very effective and user friendly. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am just beginning to test the full functionality of this virtualization tool. ### 11. Review for Red Hat Desktop Virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Easy to use and very stable. Provide free trail. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Lack of packages and sometimes fails to install them. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** It is easy to use but you should be comfortable with Unix environment first. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** For deployment environment testing and software testing. Can simulate the production environment well. ### 12. Virtualized desktops prevent catastrophes in big organizations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emile S. | Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2015 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** The Red Hat API documentation is very thorough and it is a well established company that has a proven track record. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** It can be challenging for established companies to get this implemented given all the legacy systems they already have in place. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping desktop software consistent throughout an office is invaluable and greatly reduces IT support. ### 13. Red Hat User **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria R. | Software Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** What I like most is its cross-platform, good price. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** What I like least is that the installation of this program is a little complicated. **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creates a Linux environment on a Windows OS. ### 14. Red Hat provides a complete virtualization solution for Desktops **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satish S. | Sr Middleware Expert, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2015 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** I like the innovative idea that Red Hat came up with virtualization of the Desktops. The desktop virtualization is the complete open source solution that no vendor dependency is there. The performance is super for the windows and linux users. Due to this high performance we can be confident that it will power our virtual machine workloads. The cost is at the lower end so it affordable to everyone. The the enterprise features are present in this virtual desktop solution. **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** Nothing much to dislike like the initial stages it more risky with security and storage. since we put more VMs for one host, if the host machine breaks we need to take out more VM servers outage for an application. **Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization:** defintely recommend it **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Entire enterprise applications are run on the virtual servers. The performance and utilization of resources considerably went to optimum levels with this virtual server concept. ### 15. Interesting and robust **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ernesto L. | Network Manager, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization?** Different options to virtualize the product to install **What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization?** the interface is not customer friendly **What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** What business problems are you solving? 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