Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV compete in virtualization platforms. Nutanix AHV appears to have the upper hand in terms of ease of management and integration, whereas Oracle VM offers strong compatibility benefits for Oracle ecosystems.
Features: Oracle VM is well-suited for Oracle environments because of its seamless integration and compatibility with Oracle products. It manages complex Oracle databases effectively and reduces licensing costs via its hard partitioning feature and free virtual CPUs licensing. Nutanix AHV offers excellent integration between storage and compute, resulting in a simplified management experience. It is straightforward to deploy, secure, and offers scalability. Nutanix AHV is praised for its ease of setup, high availability, and integrated monitoring capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM should improve its upgrading process, backup, and snapshot functionalities. Enhancements in command-line options, role-based access controls, and Oracle hardware integration are recommended. Nutanix AHV would benefit from better web-based management and integration with third-party solutions, as well as faster support response times and improved command-line tools. Both products have room to enhance user experience and resource management.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle VM deployment is primarily on-premises, with customer service improving over time and particularly effective with Oracle product ecosystems. Nutanix AHV deployment is also largely on-premises, with some hybrid implementations. Users commend its stability and customer service, acknowledging improvements in technical support over time for both products, though Oracle VM's support is valued in Oracle environments.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle VM is free with Oracle hardware, with costs arising mainly from optional support services, making it cost-effective for Oracle users. Nutanix AHV, included with Nutanix products, has no extra licensing fees but can be more expensive when bought separately. Still, Nutanix AHV is considered cost-effective against its competitors due to its comprehensive management features without additional costs.
Their engineers are excellent and provide great supportability.
They provide prompt and quality responses.
We can scale our systems easily without any downtime, making it a highly effective solution for dynamic environments.
Nutanix AHV Virtualization is very scalable; however, I might be underutilizing its capabilities.
The solution is very stable.
Issues such as patch delays and the OVF format challenge affect its stability rating.
I would give the stability a seven out of ten at the moment, primarily due to the issues I've had with updates.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
This delay in patching creates risk, especially for government projects that require timely updates.
Using Lenovo hardware seems problematic with Nutanix AHV Virtualization, which demands careful consideration during updates.
These menus often show options like host, memory, and disk, however, they fail to provide insight into what's happening.
If I have limited systems and there is maintenance on the hardware, the Oracle systems are impacted.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
This has been advantageous as it does not require additional licensing costs for the hypervisor, contributing to overall cost savings.
Other solutions like Citrix and VMware have seen a significant price increase, whereas Nutanix hasn't increased as dramatically.
The pricing was reasonable compared to other competitors, though the storage was expensive.
Oracle VM is not a very expensive solution.
It is easier to manage than VMware in some ways, providing a good level of interaction.
The technology behind the backups is very efficient, enabling a reliable virtual environment.
If there is an issue with the operating system running on top of it, there's no primary and secondary domain, rather segregated I/Os, disks, memory, everything assigned to a logical domain.
It is easy to copy or clone one Oracle workstation to another.
Oracle VM for x86
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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