Why Choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Over VMware or Microsoft? | Linux Today

Why Choose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Over VMware or Microsoft?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 12, 2011

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“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.

“One example is its ability to carry out the live migration of
virtual machine disk files across storage arrays — the feature
VMware (NYSE: VMW) calls Storage vMotion. A RHEV equivalent has
been on Red Hat’s road map since the launch of RHEV, but its
arrival still doesn’t appear to be imminent.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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