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Oracle VM vs VMware ESXi comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
User opinions on Oracle VM's ROI vary, with some noting low ROI despite benefits like reduced licensing and ease of use.
Sentiment score
5.7
VMware ESXi offers efficient management and time-saving benefits but faces concerns over pricing and potential cost-effectiveness compared to alternatives.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
Oracle VM users experience improving support, noting adequate responses and effective documentation, enhancing overall satisfaction with service.
Sentiment score
7.6
VMware ESXi support is generally reliable but faces occasional delays and quality issues post-Broadcom acquisition, especially initially.
In the last three or four years, we did not require any support from VMware engineers, indicating its high reliability.
I rate the technical support from VMware as nine or ten out of ten.
Customer service and support are good; they are reachable, and at times remote support suffices.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Oracle VM is highly scalable, effectively supporting various environments despite some constraints and is well-rated for adaptability.
Sentiment score
7.9
VMware ESXi is praised for vertical scalability and supports many virtual machines, though horizontal scalability needs improvement.
vCenter Server can manage up to 1,000 ESXi servers within a single UI interface, allowing extensive deployment and management capabilities.
My customers are highly satisfied with its scalability.
The solution is scalable, allowing us to scale up or down regardless of infrastructure size.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Oracle VM shows strong stability and reliability in production, with improvements mitigating initial storage and hardware configuration issues.
Sentiment score
8.5
VMware ESXi is valued for its stability and reliability, with minor issues reported, making it ideal for business operations.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
ESXi is stable, and our business operations depend on it year after year.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle VM requires improvements in UI stability, backup, performance, integration, multi-language support, security, and synchronization features.
VMware ESXi is criticized post-Broadcom acquisition for high costs, complex setup, licensing challenges, and insufficient tech support.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
It's not cost-effective for small users and creates a gap for alternatives, while favoring larger clients.
Providing a mobile application for remote access to ESXi servers would be beneficial.
The cost of VMware ESXi is very high, especially after the acquisition by Broadcom, which led to price increases.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle VM provides cost-effective pricing, flexibility, and potential savings with free options and competitive licensing on Oracle infrastructure.
VMware ESXi is costly with high initial and annual fees, exacerbated by pricing changes and subscription model challenges.
Oracle VM is not a very expensive solution.
The product is very cost-effective, though not fixed, as pricing tends to fluctuate over time.
The pricing is expensive, with the cost for customers ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 yearly.
Changes have made it cost-prohibitive for smaller users.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle VM is favored for its security, cost-efficiency, scalability, compatibility, and performance, especially with Oracle databases.
VMware ESXi offers cost savings, high availability, seamless migration, easy integration, and centralized management with reliability and stability.
It is easy to copy or clone one Oracle workstation to another.
As a level one or bare metal hypervisor, its unmatched scalability depends on underlying hardware, capable of managing large numbers of physical servers with one management platform.
Its capability to move virtual machines to physical machines is very efficient for our live environment.
ESXi is a virtualization platform that allows multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware, reducing costs significantly by transforming physical servers into virtual environments.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle VM
Ranking in Server Virtualization Software
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware ESXi
Ranking in Server Virtualization Software
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Syed Ali Waqas - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently manages development environments with robust network integration
I recommend new users download and evaluate the free version from VMware's website. Once satisfied, they should purchase the professional version for a smooth and secure IT infrastructure. The professional version is cost-effective, allowing one to create multiple servers on a single server. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
47%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 ...
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...
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...
What do you like most about VMware ESXi?
My customers are satisfied with the solution’s performance.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware ESXi?
VMware ESXi operates on a subscription model with core-based licensing; the pricing can change frequently. The product is very cost-effective, though not fixed, as pricing tends to fluctuate over t...
What needs improvement with VMware ESXi?
The cost of VMware ESXi is very high, especially after the acquisition by Broadcom, which led to price increases. Improving the cost structure would be beneficial.
 

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