Five Reasons to Switch from vSphere to Red Hat Virtualization

4 janvier 2017Jonathan Gershater1 minutes (temps de lecture)

It’s time to upgrade or to renew your VMware vSphere licenses. This decision is not easy for a few reasons such as:

One or more of your VMware products are EOL (end of life).
There are hundreds or thousands of VMs in your environment and the costs to maintain them has significantly gone up.

You might be hesitantly considering paying for an upgrade and ELA renewal because you believe there is no (other) choice.

I have good news for you. There is a reliable and enterprise choice and switching has never been easier with the recent release of

Red Hat Virtualization 4.

Here are five reasons to switch from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization:

Reason	Red Hat Virtualization	VMware vSphere
1. User Portal	Included at no additional cost, allows users to self-service - create/delete/modify virtualization resources.	Requires vCloud at additional cost.
2. OpenStack Networking	Integration with OpenStack Neutron and choice of partner networking solutions.	Requires NSX at additional cost.
3. OpenStack Cinder	Allows configuration of Ceph storage domains via OpenStack Cinder.	Requires vSAN.
4. Licensing	Subscription model includes product, all upgrades / versions, and technical support.	Requires vCenter license + support, vSphere License + support, and there may be license compatibility issues across versions.
5. Easy to Migrate	Migrate workloads from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization via a simple GUI.	No out-of-the-box migration options.

Six minute demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58LATtdZUFM

You can run Red Hat Virtualization alongside VMware and migrate workloads in phases, perhaps starting with dev/test.

Red Hat Virtualization provides a more secure, scalable, open source alternative to expensive, proprietary virtualization offerings. Compared to competing products, Red Hat Virtualization delivers easier integration and interoperability with existing infrastructure, higher density and performance, and improved economics.

Take Red Hat Virtualization for a spin by downloading the fully supported 60-day trial today.

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Gershater

Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager

Jonathan Gershater has worked in high tech since 1996. At Red Hat, Jonathan leads market analysis for Red Hat’s cloud, container and Kubernetes solutions. Prior to Red Hat, Jonathan worked at Trend Micro, Sun Microsystems, Entrust Technologies and 3Com.

At Red Hat, Jonathan specializes on differentiating Red Hat products. He focuses on OpenShift and related technologies. He has presented at Red Hat Summit in OpenStack Summit, VMworld and other events.

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