Oracle VM Reviews

The most valuable feature of this product is the quick and easy way to deploy new virtual machines from Oracle VM templates and your own templates. That is very useful to deploy new virtual machines in a few minutes with different Oracle products already installed and configured. For example, we can deploy a new virtual machine with Oracle Database installed and another virtual machine with Oracle WebCenter installed.

It reduced the time to deploy new machines and reduced the cost of licensing.

It would be very nice to improve the way to get hot backup clones of virtual machines and to schedule this jobs from Oracle VM Manager.

We used it for three years and we stopped last year.

I encountered some issues with virtual networks and live migration feature in v3.2.

We had no issues with the stability.

We've had no issues scaling it.

Customer Service:

7/10

Technical Support:

7/10

The company where I was used VMware solutions for virtualization of environments, and we migrated all Oracle products to an Oracle VM infrastructure.

The initial setup was a little complex because no one in the company knew about this product as it was something new at the time. My team and I did a successful installation of our Oracle VM environment and migrated all Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic application servers to this new infrastructure, which are now in our production environment for client deliveries.

The implementation was done by a local team of the company with some issues but finally with success.

This aspect was done by another team in our company.

I think it is a good Oracle product, but it is necessary to have a dedicated team with the correct expertise for this task because it is different from other virtualization solutions. The team should include people who know about storage, networking, Oracle Linux OS, Xen Server, Oracle Database, etc.

It allows hard partitioning platforms, thus keeping the licenses intact.

We have two datacenters, holding less than 15 physical servers and still running over 300 virtual ones.

With v2.X it was possible to do everything in the CLI or the shell. Now, on v3.X everything must be done either in the GUI or CLI, and there's no option to use the shell. I am old school, so I hate GUI. CLI is working well and I wish it to be that in future.

We have been using it for the past seven years, and have created 10 different environments.

There have been no issues with the deployments.

There was nasty bug on DomU UEK3 kernel year ago, which wiped virtual machine disks if a certain combination was used. Now, it's fine.

We have had no issues scaling it as needed.

I've never had to contact them.

The initial setup is as easy as walking. After that, it gets a little complicated, but if one knows what one is doing, it is still easy.

In-house. If you know Linux and Xen, you are good to go. If you don't, get a partner to do this for you.

As it's Oracle, there was no need to evaluate anything else.

I primarily use this for demonstrations for customers. 

It is easy to use, and easy to start.

More than five years.

It is a stable product.

The scalability is good. For us, we do not have a need for a lot of servers, so it suits our needs. We have about 30 users of this solution.

The tech support is good. 

It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me.

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

We use this solution for project management.

It is very useful for the project management of our company.

One to three years.

Integrating with the internal system is not very easy.

We reached out to tech support via email, and they responded to our inquiries.

It was very easy to setup. We used the wizard to automatically setup the master data and the initial data.

The price of this product is high. 

The CPU pinning feature that allows to link a virtual CPU (VCPU) to a physical CPU core. This feature is very useful in a virtualized environment who has on premise applications licenced by restricted number of CPU cores.

As a virtualization solution, this product help us to build and deploy development environments more quickly.

Resizing of Virtual disk needs to be improved, as does hot swap for VCPU and RAM.

I've been using it for years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

While it is a good solution for virtualization, Oracle VM is less flexible than other market solutions like VMware.

We use Oracle VM in our datacenter, which helps us run some hard core stuff. It's essentially Xen technology that runs on Oracle VM Server for SPARC, all of which runs on a base supported by Oracle, which is great.

Xen running on Oracle VM differs greatly depending on whether you're using version 2 or version 3 in terms of directories, images, etc. So it takes some getting used to because they weren't release with consistent interfaces.

I've been using it since v2.x when it really went into production grade.

We've had no issues with deployment.

Xen technology running on Oracle VM is rock solid. Again, versions 2 and version 3 are completely different, and it takes some time to get used to. But for users, it's still a rock solid product and works perfectly.

So far, we've been able to scale it. We haven't had any issues with scalability.

The initial setup wasn't complex.

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.

1) It allows deploying operating systems and the application software’s within supported platforms and environments.2) It includes VM Server which is designed to provide a secure, lightweight, server based platform to run and execute virtual machines. And also includes VM Manager which manages VM Servers.3) The product is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

1) Drag and Drop feature is not stable, at times the UI becomes inconsistent, when using this feature.2) Connecting VM Manager in a web browser twice in a different tab or window provides unexpected display issues.3) When upgrading the VM server to newer version from ISO image and CD, though new entries are created in Oracle Linux grub menu, however entries from previous installation are not removed.All and all the product offers number of benefits to the users who often use multiple platforms. Though there are some disadvantages of the product which can be fixed with some workarounds.

Though the latest release 3.1.1 is quite mature and has more to offer in terms of performance, usability, security, and scalability.

Oracle VM is open source so it is free and readily available for downloading. It saves a lot of money instead of purchasing multiple servers, and can allow you to load more than one operating system at a time. Use of Oracle VM and installation is quite simple. It has high security and works well with a wide range of hardware.

Oracle VM has some of its versions supporting only English language. So you can think of what happens to non-English speakers. Using it on Web services APIs -- standard access is enabled by default, which is a security flaw.Although open source, downloading some of the applications is very tedious because they are too large.