Oracle VM Reviews

Name: Oracle VM
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4 (80 reviews)

Vendor: Oracle

4.0 out of 5

80 reviews
83% willing to recommend

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Oracle VM for x86

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Oracle VM is the #7 ranked solution in best Server Virtualization Software. PeerSpot users give Oracle VM an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Oracle VM is most commonly compared to Proxmox VE: Oracle VM vs Proxmox VE. Oracle VM is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 52% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 46% of all views.

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Rasika Sudasinghe

Senior Director - Systems Architecture at MIT ESP

Oracle VM is an obsolete product in that no new features are coming for it. The new version is called Oracle KVM. The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface. When comparing the user console with vCenter, the interface used to control VMware environments, Oracle VM's user interface is not that rich in terms of user experience. If Oracle could improve that, it would be good. Besides that, we don't know if the solution comes with a roadmap because it comes free of charge with Oracle x86. We can't expect something similar to vCenter in KVM, but at least if you can improve what users can experience, then it would be good.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee

Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

A disclaimer: Though I have been working with various flavours of Linux since Slackware 1.2 in 1996, and I more recently focus in more enterprise computing and Oracle Database, my opinions tend to be colored with those use cases. We use this Virtualization platform to host our internal development…

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Andre-Rocha

Senior Database Specialist at Deverg

We use the solution to deliver the correct license validation for the Oracle database. They advised us to use the Oracle VM for some environments VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration. Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what…

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Oracle VM mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of Oracle VM in the Server Virtualization Software category stands at 7.0%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"It is a stable product that has been reliable for several years."
"It provides reliable virtualization that supports our operational needs without significant performance issues."
"The most valuable features of Oracle VM are live migration and snapshots."

Room for Improvement

"The product could improve network virtualization and hardware utilization functionalities."
"The product's user interface could be more intuitive for less experienced users."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."

Pricing

"The pricing for the platform is aligned with other enterprise virtualization solutions."
"Oracle VM is an open-source solution."
"The user will be charged accordingly as well—pay as you go. Basically, you get charged only for storage. If I stop a VM, then I'm not charged for the CPU usage. So, that's fine."

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Educational Organization

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Learn more about Oracle VM

Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud.

Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

Oracle VM for SPARC

Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

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Oracle VM customers

Ambulance Victoria, Australian Finance Group (AFG), Avnet Technology Solutions, CERN, cloudKleyer, Danish Tax Authority (SKAT), Data Intensity, Dubai World, Engineers Australia, Enkitec, Groupe FLO, Guerra S.A. Implemento, s Rodovišrios, Interactive One, IT Convergence, Jesta Digital, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, KT, Kyoto Prefecture, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / National Ignition Facility, Multinet Pakistan, National Australia Bank (NAB), Navis LLC, Overhead Door, Overstock.com, Paragon Data, Parks Victoria, Pella, Sunway Shared Services, St. Louis Metro, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., University of Massachusetts, Versace,