Is RHEV Hypervisor free as XenServer or ESXi or just trial?

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I wonder does RedHat do the same as VMware or Citrix?

Thanks,

dt
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dt Pro 578 points
10 February 2012 4:56 AM

If RedHat can provide RHEV Hypervisor free for tech. community, that's be great for techies can get used to it and will consider that is an alternative virtualization when having an opportunity. I remember when Citrix wasn't popular, they just give free XenServer, and now many companies start looking into it as an alternative to VMware.

I just bought 2 barebone systems for my lab at home, currently I install XenServer 6 as hypervisor. If RHEV Hypervisor is free, i'm glad to wipe out XenServer, and install RHEV and learning more about it.

Humble Devassy Chirammal's picture Red Hat Pro 542 points
10 February 2012 5:17 AM

Hi Danny,

 

Can I point you to below URLs ?

 

https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-69002

 

http://www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3/

 

Hope it helps and feel free to revert if you got any questions..

Sadique Puthen's picture Red Hat Guru 4649 points
10 February 2012 5:18 AM

You can get a 60 day supported evaluation. Please see more details at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-69002

 

You can signup for this at http://www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3/

AW Active Contributor 209 points
10 February 2012 6:53 AM

You might want to check out oVirt which was released yesterday: http://www.ovirt.org

This is kind of the upstream project for RHEV like fedora is for RHEL.

And it is free.

DY Guru 5340 points
10 February 2012 9:52 AM

The hypervisor as such is free, but the hypervisor here is KVM, not the RHEV-H distribution. You get KVM for free with RHEL, and Fedora, no extra charge.

 

When you purchase RHEV, you pay for CPU socket use, that means access to RHEV-H and RHEV-M is there for you to use. a single 8-socket host with RHEV-H will cost as much as 8 single-socket hosts, each running RHEV-H.

 

PM Red Hat Active Contributor 225 points
10 February 2012 1:03 PM

Andre's comment is correct, and you can download oVirt Node ISO's here:

http://www.ovirt.org/releases/stable/binary/

 

oVirt Node is the upstream project that feeds into RHEV-H, just as Fedora is the upstream distribution that feeds into RHEL.  So if you are wanting to experiment with the technologies, this is a good place to start.

dt Pro 578 points
10 March 2012 8:25 PM

After I registered for RHEV trial. I click the link https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=12564

But it said "We're sorry, but the channel could not be found.".

Am I missing something that causes this issue?

Thanks,

PM Red Hat Active Contributor 225 points
12 March 2012 4:23 PM

That shouldn't be occuring.  Probably you should email Red Hat customer service to look into this issue with your account/trial entitlements.  (email customerservice@redhat.com)

SB Active Contributor 185 points
27 September 2012 7:08 PM

oVirt has been released in the open source community. This is free RHEV.

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