Oracle VM vs RHEV comparison

Oracle and Red Hat are both solutions in the Server Virtualization Software category. Oracle is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Red Hat is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.4. Oracle holds a 7.4% mindshare in SVS, compared to Red Hat’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 78% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Oracle VM

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83% willing to recommend

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78% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Oracle VM and RHEV compete in the virtualization market. Oracle VM may have an edge in cost savings for Oracle environments, while RHEV offers strong performance and open-source benefits.

Features: Oracle VM provides powerful virtualization specifically beneficial for Oracle database licensing, with hard partitioning and Oracle templates for quick deployments. It supports various operating systems and offers secure live migrations. RHEV uses KVM technology to deliver excellent performance and security features, including Transparent Huge Pages and SELinux. It is open-source, supports live migration, and high availability, catering to a range of applications.

Room for Improvement: Oracle VM could benefit from enhancements in automatic backup, snapshot features, and third-party tool integration. It also needs more flexible network storage management. RHEV can improve its load balancing and clustering capabilities, along with better GUI and live-patching support without reboots.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle VM effectively supports private, hybrid, and Oracle cloud environments, though customer service varies in technical expertise. RHEV also supports diverse deployment environments, but user support can be inconsistent regarding complex queries and third-party integrations.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle VM is cost-efficient for Oracle hardware users, offering free deployment and support with reduced Oracle licensing costs through hard partitions. RHEV is budget-friendly as an open-source solution but requires a subscription for support. Its lower cost compared to competitors is significant, though there is room for further reduction to enhance appeal.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle VM

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

RHEV

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of Oracle VM is 7.4%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RHEV is 3.9%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee

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

Low cost robust VM soln with ability to patch with no downtime and free Live migration

The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful.The ability to pin cores to reduce licensing costs for our clients runnning core based oracel producs is also invaluable.One important factor to note is that to use live migration its important to create specifc pools devoted to certain products for exampel a pool for weblogic and a separate server pool for database. live migration is not permitted when using cpu pinnning to reduce license costs.

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Sujeet-Kumar

Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure at Path Infotech ltd

The solution is scalable and affordable, but it lacks features, and it is not easy to manage

Management of RHEV is not as easy as VMware. Some features do not work. The product does not provide features similar to VMware’s VMotion. After creating the cluster, the VM is moved to another node if we move down. However, the VM does not move the parent node automatically. It has to be moved manually. VMware moves it automatically. RHEV moves it to the parent node only if we restart. Everything can be handled in VMware through the GUI. However, in RHEV, some things can be managed through UI, and others cannot. We have to troubleshoot and use CLI. A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The network capabilities are good."

"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."

"The stability is rock solid."

"Its technical support is quite good."

"Based on all the testing I have done, I found there were no issues with its performance."

"It is a stable product."

"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."

"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."

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"It is very stable."

"The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available."

"Red Hat is the most stable system."

"The solution makes migration easy."

"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."

"When you purchase RHEV, you are essentially buying a subscription license. This license can be integrated with various client types, including these integrations with the subscription."

"The solution is stable."

"The platform is scalable, allowing for the installation of multiple nodes."

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Cons

"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."

"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."

"Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working. There are cases where I had to downgrade the system to get it working again."

"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."

"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."

"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."

"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."

"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."

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"We should improve how we manage storage domains and make more comprehensive control available through the command line."

"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."

"RHEV can improve by keeping pace with new features and new enhancements. They should not be halted or delayed innovation because over the past quarter the enhancements have not been as fast as they have been previously."

"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."

"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."

"The documentation is not as good as it should be."

"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."

"In comparison to VMware, this solution isn't as stable. We're testing it right now, and we're not trusting the stability of the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for the platform is aligned with other enterprise virtualization solutions."

"If you buy an Oracle server, this solution is free. You have to only pay for support."

"The price compares well with other solutions."

"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool."

"I have heard from my colleague that it comes with a high price tag."

"Its price is relatively low."

"If you choose Oracle hardware, then this virtualization software is included along with support."

"There is no need to make any payments to use the solution. You can just download the product and use it for free."

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"This product has a variety of licensing options available. However, the level of licensing, and therefore the cost of licensing, is dependent on the number of servers being utilized."

"We have to pay extra for vulnerability and fault tolerance."

"We are using the free version of Red Hat."

"Its price depends on the use cases."

"This is an open-source solution."

"It's a budget product as far as I'm concerned. It's way cheaper than any of its competitors. The only thing cheaper than Red Hat is that the people who take the Red Hat code clone it and then self-support it."

"Price-wise, RHEV is okay, in my opinion."

"I believe we pay on a yearly basis."

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Jan 13, 2015

vSphere vs. RHEV vs. Hyper-V vs. XenServer

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Educational Organization

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Oracle VM or KVM?

I would prefer if KVM was easier to scale and not so limited. Overall the product has been helpful. It is easy to use, and was quite straight-forward to set up. Since I have been using KVM, I have ...

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Which is better - Oracle VM or VMware VSphere?

Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is consid...

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What do you like most about Oracle VM?

If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private n...

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What do you like most about RHEV?

The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RHEV?

It should be more affordable and available. It should target companies, especially new ones, that need servers with capacities of around 518+ units. It should be priced appropriately because it mig...

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What needs improvement with RHEV?

We should improve how we manage storage domains and make more comprehensive control available through the command line. RHEV needs to consider those points that can be integrated. The REST API shou...

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Comparisons

VMware vSphere vs Oracle VM

Compared 36% of the time

Proxmox VE vs Oracle VM

Compared 18% of the time

KVM vs Oracle VM

Compared 18% of the time

Oracle VM VirtualBox vs Oracle VM

Compared 15% of the time

VMware Workstation vs Oracle VM

Compared 3% of the time

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VMware vSphere vs RHEV

Compared 55% of the time

Proxmox VE vs RHEV

Compared 13% of the time

KVM vs RHEV

Compared 11% of the time

Hyper-V vs RHEV

Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

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.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV, is a leading open standard enterprise virtualization management solution. This solution supports virtualization of servers and desktops using the same infrastructure and a single easy-to-use interface.

Because RHEV is based on open standards, it is vendor-independent and a lot more cost effective and flexible than proprietary solutions.

Sample Customers

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