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Oracle VM mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Oracle VM in the Server Virtualization Software category stands at 7.1%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryServer Virtualization SoftwareFeb 19, 2025Download
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Educational Organization
47%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Government
4%
University
4%
Retailer
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Healthcare Company
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Media Company
1%
Non Profit
1%
Construction Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%

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RJ
Owner at Inforex
Verified user of Oracle VM
Jan 7, 2025
Simplicity in setup and use enhances personal computing

Pros

"The simplicity is a strong point. "

Cons

"Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working."
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Senior Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Oracle VM
Jan 26, 2025
Logical domains maintain uptime with helpful virtualization and great for adjusting resources

Pros

"I can dynamically adjust resources—it's stable and offers virtual functions."

Cons

"The main drawback is having a single hardware with multiple logical domains. If I have limited systems and there is maintenance on the hardware, the Oracle systems are impacted."
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AF
IT Technology Manager at Americana Group
Verified user of Oracle VM
Mar 31, 2024
Offers numerous features in its commercial version

Pros

"Oracle VM is user-friendly and facilitates compliance with Oracle Licensing, a feature not provided by competitors like VMware or Hyper-V. Oracle prefers customers to use their technology. It is also easy to implement, clone, and deploy machines with Oracle VM, making it a convenient solution."

Cons

"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot user
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
Verified user of Oracle VM
Aug 5, 2020
Product version discussed: 3.4
Low cost robust VM soln with ability to patch with no downtime and free Live migration

Pros

"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."

Cons

"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
Rasika Sudasinghe - PeerSpot user
Senior Director - Systems Architecture at MIT ESP
Verified user of Oracle VM
Aug 29, 2023
A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads

Pros

"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."

Cons

"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
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Unix System Engineer / Oracle Pre-sales Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Oracle VM
Apr 28, 2016
Product version discussed: 3.3
It supports diverse guest operating systems: Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Microsoft Windows.
RK
Chief Executive Officer CEO at IT CROWD S.A.S
Verified user of Oracle VM
Jan 11, 2022
Robust, mature, and easy to set up

Pros

"It's a very mature product."

Cons

"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
LM
IT Architect at Grupa Wirtualna Polska
Verified user of Oracle VM
May 17, 2024
Open-source and can be used for virtualization purposes

Pros

"The most valuable features of Oracle VM are live migration and snapshots."

Cons

"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."