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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
