Oracle VM Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Oracle Middleware Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 31, 2016

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

What is most valuable?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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

What needs improvement?

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

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using it for years.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were no issues with the deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've experienced no issues with performance.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's been able to scale for our needs.

What other advice do I have?

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

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Our company is Oracle Platinum Partner and provides IT services based on Oracle Products like Database, Middleware as well as Virtualization.

it_user516714Helpdesk level 3 at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Sep 20, 2016

I agree with most of his comments

it_user3894

IT Administrator at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jan 22, 2013

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Beware using it with Web Services APIs

Valuable Features:

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.

Room for Improvement:

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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.