Oracle VM and Proxmox VE are competitors in the virtualization solutions category. Oracle VM appears to have the upper hand in Oracle-specific environments due to its comprehensive support for Oracle products, while Proxmox VE stands out with its cost-effectiveness and features suitable for general virtualization needs.
Features: Oracle VM integrates well with Oracle software, provides scalability, and supports live migration, making it ideal for Oracle database virtualization environments. Proxmox VE is open-source, easy to use, and integrates features like LXC containers and KVM-based virtualization. It offers an intuitive web-managed interface and a large repository of container images.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM could improve its outdated Xen technology, streamline its complex user interface, and improve backup and hot migration features. Enhancing UI simplification would also be beneficial. Proxmox VE should aim for more intuitive GUIs, additional enterprise-level features like Distributed Resource Scheduling, and better monitoring tools. There are also storage management and resource allocation challenges during upgrades.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle VM is straightforward to implement, especially on Oracle hardware, and offers comprehensive support, albeit with varied expertise. Proxmox VE is known for its easy deployment across various hardware types, supported by a robust community, though some users find initial setups challenging.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle VM, while free, involves support costs but offsets this with savings on Oracle product licenses, appealing to enterprises focusing on scalability and future growth. Proxmox VE is highly cost-effective, offering enterprise-quality features at a lower cost, attracting budget-conscious users with its open-source model and optional support costs.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
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.
Oracle VM is not a very expensive solution.
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.
Proxmox VE is a complete virtualization management solution for servers. It is a powerful open-source platform and supports two virtualization technologies - KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for virtual machines and LXC for containers. Proxmox VE has a central user interface that allows you to manage not only VMs and containers, but also storage resources, network configuration, and high availability for clusters. It is enterprise-ready and is valued for its scalability and maximum flexibility, enabling you to virtualize very demanding workloads. Proxmox VE makes it possible for you to easily install, manage, and monitor hyper-converged (HCI) data centers.
Proxmox VE Key Features
The Proxmox VE platform has many powerful features, including:
pen-source software, high-available clusters, command line, fencing, a web-based management interface, flexible storage options, REST API, live/online migration, storage replication stack, software defined storage, virtualized networking, backup and restore, two-factor authentication, role-based administration, and VM templates and clones.
Proxmox VE Benefits
Some of the biggest benefits of Proxmox VE are:
Reviews From Real Users
Here is some feedback from some of our users who are currently using the solution:
A PeerSpot user who is a director at a tech services company says, “The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility.”
Another PeerSpot user who is a head of IT operations at a tech services company mentions that "In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
Deepen D., director and CTO at TechnoInfotech, expresses that "The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
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