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Not really in production though. Anything serious runs on esxi if it's on prem servers. Maybe this will change that, but I doubt it.
Yeah we did a pretty thorough review this year in the hopes of ditching VMware... Landscape is pretty bleak tbh
Only one I would maybe like to give a PoC would be nutanix. unfortunately red hat virt is being deprecated soon, to be replaced by ovirt which is def not prod ready
Not exactly. oVirt is the upstream open source project that Red Hat Virtualization was based on. It is never and will never be "production ready." Because they don't sell support for it.
Red Hat does not have a replacement for RHV. You can use OpenShift Virtualization to make virtual machines, but it's not designed to be a replacement for RHV or a competitor to VMware. It is designed to be a stepping stone for people looking to containerize their workloads or keep that one legacy app around that can't be containerized. You might be better served by OpenStack, but that's an entire cloud orchestration tool, and the next version will require OpenShift to host the control plane.
Nutanix is probably the best competitor to VMware. Proxmox is another solution that would be great for small to medium businesses. SUSE's Rancher team is working on Harvester, which could become something that competes. Honestly, there isn't a lot of competition in this market because it's not where growth is. People are moving to containers and kubernetes. Even VMware knows it and they are playing catch up with Tanzu.
Source: I'm a consultant for Red Hat.
Well our red hat account manager said OpenShift virtualisation (what I meant by ovirt and why I included it with Red hat) was their replacement for RHV.
They did also say all the rest though. That said in NA there are a couple of huge esxi to OpenShift virtualisation migrations we have white papers about. Our testing just found too many missing features compared to vmwares offerings
Well, they're wrong. It has been clearly communicated that OpenShift Virt is not a replacement for RHV. It does not do the enterprise things like having concepts of dataceners, etc... It is to help people migrate to containerization.
That's just sales being sales. Just because you can use a hammer to drive a screw doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job. Which is clearly the conclusion you already came to.