G2 Vendor Directory

VMware ESXi vs. Red Hat OpenShift

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricVMware ESXi

by Broadcom

Red Hat OpenShift

by Red Hat

Overall rating4.64.5
Review count24306
Ease of use9.18.4
Ease of setup9.38.1
Quality of support8.98.7
Meets requirements9.48.9
NPS77.27272764.948454
Small Business33.3%24.1%
Mid-Market45.8%27.4%
Enterprise20.8%48.5%
Total page views2622,028
Total LLM citations3845,539

VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi is a robust, enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, designed to deploy and manage virtual machines directly on physical servers without the need for an underlying operating system. As a bare-metal hypervisor, ESXi provides a secure and efficient virtualization platform, enabling organizations to consolidate their IT infrastructure, optimize resource utilization, and reduce operational costs.

Pros

  • Virtualization Management
  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Snapshots
  • Stability
  • Management Ease

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is an open source, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications across on-premise, private cloud and public cloud infrastructure.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Kubernetes Management
  • Scalability
  • Integrations
  • Deployment Ease