Oracle VM offers features such as live migration of VMs, remote solutions, online memory expansion, and integration with various systems. Despite some issues with network virtualization and hardware performance, these functionalities make it a good solution for many use cases. I rate it a seven out of ten.
Senior Oracle DBA at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
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Top 20
2024-04-18T10:44:16Z
Apr 18, 2024
The platform's networking and database support are crucial for us. We also utilize Oracle Cloud for both production and testing environments. It provides reliable virtualization that supports our operational needs without significant performance issues. We can manage virtual machines remotely, which is essential for our data center operations. It's a good choice if you're already invested in Oracle software, but other virtualization solutions might be preferable if you're not. I rate it a nine out of ten.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. The only recommendation is, in case you lose the keys for the VMs, that becomes a little complicated process to get through. There is a process, but unless the person is very technically sound, the keys cannot be exchanged or checked. They cannot be retrieved, but they can be changed. That's the only point you need to remember.
Going from different platforms is not an automatic process. Migration depends on the complexity. It's not simply copy-paste; we must prepare, configure, and migrate data. If you're using Windows or Oracle IBM, you may face challenges because Oracle VM is primarily designed for Linux machines. Even though Oracle supports hosting Windows VMs on it, I think it doesn't work well. Unlike VMware and Hyper-V, which are more versatile, Oracle VM performs best when used with Linux and Oracle products. The solution's maintenance is easy. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I recommend the solution to others as it is a stable solution that works properly. Considering my use cases, I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.
We use an older version of the solution. While the solution started as an on-premises deployment, we've since moved to a private cloud. We did that in the last 18 months. This is a very complex system for complex organizations. It is not something I would recommend to everyone. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
I'm working with Oracle VM, and I'm an administrator for it. The customers use Oracle VM in their companies, and they're given ownership, so I'm currently working with other customers on their active assets. My suggestion to people looking into implementing Oracle VM is that they should choose Oracle Exadata, instead of the Dell server, Lenovo server, or other products, because upgrading those takes a healthy amount of time, and they also have some vulnerability with other vendor products. This is why I'm suggesting an integrated product like Oracle Exadata, which runs on Oracle Solaris, which runs on Oracle Linux, and it also has a database function, and it's completely integrated, and has built-in networking and record storage. I would rate Oracle VM a nine out of ten.
Infrastructure and Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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2022-02-08T18:26:31Z
Feb 8, 2022
Overall, this Oracle VM works well for us. It is a good product, although Oracle is now recommending that we transition to Oracle KVM. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We're a partner, a reseller, of Oracle VM. Oracle VM is basically an infrastructure product. It needs to be installed on-premise. For the cloud, Oracle VM is not applicable as Oracle itself virtualizes everything and provides for the clients. With Oracle VM, we have deployed it to our client infrastructure on-premise in all instances. This product now is more than 12 to 15 years old. It has been in the market for a long time. Oracle has announced the end of life of this product. Soon, it is going to be finished. Next year, they're not going to launch any more versions of Oracle VM. Right now, there is no advice that I can give as the product is at the end of life. If a company has Oracle VM in their environment, it is good to have an Oracle VM patch to the latest version and to keep it stable, and that's it. It's not going to be distributed anymore after next year. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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2021-06-08T12:44:51Z
Jun 8, 2021
Currently, they are trying to improve this solution database and technology. They are trying to upgrade it to make it a more customizable database. I would certainly recommend this solution to other users who have Oracle applications. It has been customized to optimize this database. I would rate Oracle VM a nine out of ten.
I would recommend this solution to others. I have recommended this to many different clients. It is for free, which is its biggest advantage. We are also Oracle partners, so we tend to go for Oracle. I would rate Oracle VM a ten out of ten.
We don't have a business relationship with Oracle. One of the things that's unusual about my company is we absolutely do not court or back any particular technology player as we're the trusted advisor helping companies understand and solve problems. How unbiased can I be if I'm getting marketing dollars from Oracle or from Microsoft or from somebody else? We stand on our own. That's not always easy, however, it's the right thing to do. When I make a recommendation, it is with 100% the customer's interests in mind. I come in and work with companies that are in the process of migrating or updating off of older systems and into newer technologies, whether it be an on-prem hyper-converged type of infrastructure or into the cloud. I've got about 30 years' worth of experience with Oracle as an administrator and as a manager. A lot of times the customers are not quite sure what they want to go with. VMware is the big player in the virtualization space. I'm involved with a customer right now doing a large virtualization project where they're moving from individual old servers to a virtualized Dell VxRail environment. Therefore, I don't work exclusively with Oracle. Oracle has moved to KVM. Essentially they're trying to consolidate and trying to use KVM as it's slightly more popular and more robust virtualization technology. There are other ways of solving the problem, however, KVM has been around a while and Oracle's very tied to the Linux platform - although they do run on Windows and I've got clients running Oracle in Azure cloud. It really doesn't matter for virtualization. In terms of the Oracle versions we would use, it was mostly the latest version that we could get our hands on. It's always best to go with the latest versions. Oracle has a support policy that they maintain the current version, one version back, and everything older than that tends to be somewhat difficult to get support on. Therefore, you don't want to linger. However, a lot of people use Oracle virtualization as what I'd call minimal infrastructure. We're running it due to the fact that we need to have virtualization based on Oracle licensing concerns. It works, however, it's not anywhere to the same level of sophistication or of tools that, say, a VMware would be. It's like stepping back about two or three generations of VMware. I would advise others to understand what the value of this particular layer of the stack is going to provide for you. Oracle has a very good policy in terms of letting you download the software. There's really no license keys. You can play with it and try to understand it and make sure that it's going to work for you. You don't want to run this longer than necessary. Oracle's not going to let you use it for six months. However, you certainly can pull it down, install it, understand what it can and can't do for you, and then use it appropriately. On a scale from one to ten, I would say it's a solid seven. It lacks some of the newer features that VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology have, however, that's not necessarily a showstopper for what it's used for. If you want all the flashiness, then you tend to rate it lower, yet it's quite functional and does the job.
IT Team Lead Planning & Assets at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-10-01T09:57:49Z
Oct 1, 2020
Oracle has always been one of the best database software on the market, and that's from at a corporate level. We used to use SQL in the past, and we've moved away from SQL in a lot of ways. So, I would definitely recommend Oracle based on its stability, the support it provides and being reliable. I wouldn't give it a 10 unless I knew exactly everything about it. There's a certain aspect of it that I don't use because it's done by our global engineering team. what I know of it, I think, eight is reasonable. If I knew more about the product, having used all of the features that comes with it, and still didn't have an issue and find it still being stable and reliable and a great product to work with, I'll probably give it a 10. Because I don't use the extended features, I would rate Oracle VM an eight out of ten.
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-08-03T06:11:08Z
Aug 3, 2020
We're simply customers. We don't have a business relationship with Oracle. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this product, as we are moving off of it. I would suggest that other organizations go with a KVM-based product. It's my understanding that Oracle will not be continuing with the product, and therefore no more work will be done to add features or improve the product. Overall, I'd rate the solution six out of ten.
IT Infrastructure Lead at iConnect IT Business Solutions DMCC
Real User
Top 5
2020-07-26T08:19:00Z
Jul 26, 2020
We're partners with Oracle. We're consultants. My advice to other potential users is this: nothing is better than planning. It's much in a better way to start a project. That way, you understand how much it is that you need to have or how many servers you require. It seldom matters when you deploy in the virtual environment. You need to be very hands-on in Linux environments. I come from a Windows background. I am not a Linux user, for the most part. That said, fo this project, I learned Linux. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
We're partners with Oracle. We are actually an IT service provider and an internet service provider. We have a lot of experience with VMware. I'm not the person who updates the solution, so I'm not sure what version it is that we are on, but it is most likely the latest. While the solution is okay, the flexibility is lacking. I would much rather recommend VMware over Oracle VM at this time due to the greater flexibility in that other system. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. If it offered much more flexibility or was closer to offering features that were closer to what VMware offers, I would rate it a bit higher.
My advice for anybody who is researching this solution is to consider the total cost of ownership. It does not make sense to try and save money on hardware if you are going to have really expensive software. Be sure to look at the entire ecosystem, rather than the itemized cost. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
Nothing is simple about virtualization software products anymore. They are becoming more complex by the day. Now, with the advent of containers, the complexity has increased. Nothing is simple. Users must be dedicated to understand these VM solutions.
We have seen stability challenges if the storage and network is not rock solid. In fact, the most robust solutions are those where the integration is already done, namely Oracle PCA, Oracle ODA, and Oracle Exalogic. These can be a little expensive for smaller setups, though the ODA is a very interesting choice in such constrained budget scenarios.
Oracle VM for x86
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Oracle VM offers features such as live migration of VMs, remote solutions, online memory expansion, and integration with various systems. Despite some issues with network virtualization and hardware performance, these functionalities make it a good solution for many use cases. I rate it a seven out of ten.
The platform's networking and database support are crucial for us. We also utilize Oracle Cloud for both production and testing environments. It provides reliable virtualization that supports our operational needs without significant performance issues. We can manage virtual machines remotely, which is essential for our data center operations. It's a good choice if you're already invested in Oracle software, but other virtualization solutions might be preferable if you're not. I rate it a nine out of ten.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. The only recommendation is, in case you lose the keys for the VMs, that becomes a little complicated process to get through. There is a process, but unless the person is very technically sound, the keys cannot be exchanged or checked. They cannot be retrieved, but they can be changed. That's the only point you need to remember.
Going from different platforms is not an automatic process. Migration depends on the complexity. It's not simply copy-paste; we must prepare, configure, and migrate data. If you're using Windows or Oracle IBM, you may face challenges because Oracle VM is primarily designed for Linux machines. Even though Oracle supports hosting Windows VMs on it, I think it doesn't work well. Unlike VMware and Hyper-V, which are more versatile, Oracle VM performs best when used with Linux and Oracle products. The solution's maintenance is easy. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
The solution is easy to configure once you understand the documentation. I rate it a nine out of ten.
I recommend the solution to others as it is a stable solution that works properly. Considering my use cases, I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.
Overall, I would rate nine out of ten.
As per my experience using it, it's been wonderful. I recommend Oracle VM to anyone. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Oracle VM is a good native product for Oracle applications and databases. I rate Oracle VM a nine out of ten.
I rate the solution a seven. I advise others to go for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, the next platform for Oracle based on KVM.
I would rate the product a seven out of ten.
We use an older version of the solution. While the solution started as an on-premises deployment, we've since moved to a private cloud. We did that in the last 18 months. This is a very complex system for complex organizations. It is not something I would recommend to everyone. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
My personal favorite VM solution is Proxmox. It is a lower-cost solution, easy to install, and I also run it on my home system.
I'm working with Oracle VM, and I'm an administrator for it. The customers use Oracle VM in their companies, and they're given ownership, so I'm currently working with other customers on their active assets. My suggestion to people looking into implementing Oracle VM is that they should choose Oracle Exadata, instead of the Dell server, Lenovo server, or other products, because upgrading those takes a healthy amount of time, and they also have some vulnerability with other vendor products. This is why I'm suggesting an integrated product like Oracle Exadata, which runs on Oracle Solaris, which runs on Oracle Linux, and it also has a database function, and it's completely integrated, and has built-in networking and record storage. I would rate Oracle VM a nine out of ten.
Overall, this Oracle VM works well for us. It is a good product, although Oracle is now recommending that we transition to Oracle KVM. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We're a partner, a reseller, of Oracle VM. Oracle VM is basically an infrastructure product. It needs to be installed on-premise. For the cloud, Oracle VM is not applicable as Oracle itself virtualizes everything and provides for the clients. With Oracle VM, we have deployed it to our client infrastructure on-premise in all instances. This product now is more than 12 to 15 years old. It has been in the market for a long time. Oracle has announced the end of life of this product. Soon, it is going to be finished. Next year, they're not going to launch any more versions of Oracle VM. Right now, there is no advice that I can give as the product is at the end of life. If a company has Oracle VM in their environment, it is good to have an Oracle VM patch to the latest version and to keep it stable, and that's it. It's not going to be distributed anymore after next year. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
I would rate Oracle VM a 9 out of 10.
Currently, they are trying to improve this solution database and technology. They are trying to upgrade it to make it a more customizable database. I would certainly recommend this solution to other users who have Oracle applications. It has been customized to optimize this database. I would rate Oracle VM a nine out of ten.
I would recommend this solution to others. I have recommended this to many different clients. It is for free, which is its biggest advantage. We are also Oracle partners, so we tend to go for Oracle. I would rate Oracle VM a ten out of ten.
We don't have a business relationship with Oracle. One of the things that's unusual about my company is we absolutely do not court or back any particular technology player as we're the trusted advisor helping companies understand and solve problems. How unbiased can I be if I'm getting marketing dollars from Oracle or from Microsoft or from somebody else? We stand on our own. That's not always easy, however, it's the right thing to do. When I make a recommendation, it is with 100% the customer's interests in mind. I come in and work with companies that are in the process of migrating or updating off of older systems and into newer technologies, whether it be an on-prem hyper-converged type of infrastructure or into the cloud. I've got about 30 years' worth of experience with Oracle as an administrator and as a manager. A lot of times the customers are not quite sure what they want to go with. VMware is the big player in the virtualization space. I'm involved with a customer right now doing a large virtualization project where they're moving from individual old servers to a virtualized Dell VxRail environment. Therefore, I don't work exclusively with Oracle. Oracle has moved to KVM. Essentially they're trying to consolidate and trying to use KVM as it's slightly more popular and more robust virtualization technology. There are other ways of solving the problem, however, KVM has been around a while and Oracle's very tied to the Linux platform - although they do run on Windows and I've got clients running Oracle in Azure cloud. It really doesn't matter for virtualization. In terms of the Oracle versions we would use, it was mostly the latest version that we could get our hands on. It's always best to go with the latest versions. Oracle has a support policy that they maintain the current version, one version back, and everything older than that tends to be somewhat difficult to get support on. Therefore, you don't want to linger. However, a lot of people use Oracle virtualization as what I'd call minimal infrastructure. We're running it due to the fact that we need to have virtualization based on Oracle licensing concerns. It works, however, it's not anywhere to the same level of sophistication or of tools that, say, a VMware would be. It's like stepping back about two or three generations of VMware. I would advise others to understand what the value of this particular layer of the stack is going to provide for you. Oracle has a very good policy in terms of letting you download the software. There's really no license keys. You can play with it and try to understand it and make sure that it's going to work for you. You don't want to run this longer than necessary. Oracle's not going to let you use it for six months. However, you certainly can pull it down, install it, understand what it can and can't do for you, and then use it appropriately. On a scale from one to ten, I would say it's a solid seven. It lacks some of the newer features that VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology have, however, that's not necessarily a showstopper for what it's used for. If you want all the flashiness, then you tend to rate it lower, yet it's quite functional and does the job.
Oracle has always been one of the best database software on the market, and that's from at a corporate level. We used to use SQL in the past, and we've moved away from SQL in a lot of ways. So, I would definitely recommend Oracle based on its stability, the support it provides and being reliable. I wouldn't give it a 10 unless I knew exactly everything about it. There's a certain aspect of it that I don't use because it's done by our global engineering team. what I know of it, I think, eight is reasonable. If I knew more about the product, having used all of the features that comes with it, and still didn't have an issue and find it still being stable and reliable and a great product to work with, I'll probably give it a 10. Because I don't use the extended features, I would rate Oracle VM an eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution a seven out of 10.
We're simply customers. We don't have a business relationship with Oracle. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this product, as we are moving off of it. I would suggest that other organizations go with a KVM-based product. It's my understanding that Oracle will not be continuing with the product, and therefore no more work will be done to add features or improve the product. Overall, I'd rate the solution six out of ten.
We're partners with Oracle. We're consultants. My advice to other potential users is this: nothing is better than planning. It's much in a better way to start a project. That way, you understand how much it is that you need to have or how many servers you require. It seldom matters when you deploy in the virtual environment. You need to be very hands-on in Linux environments. I come from a Windows background. I am not a Linux user, for the most part. That said, fo this project, I learned Linux. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
We're partners with Oracle. We are actually an IT service provider and an internet service provider. We have a lot of experience with VMware. I'm not the person who updates the solution, so I'm not sure what version it is that we are on, but it is most likely the latest. While the solution is okay, the flexibility is lacking. I would much rather recommend VMware over Oracle VM at this time due to the greater flexibility in that other system. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. If it offered much more flexibility or was closer to offering features that were closer to what VMware offers, I would rate it a bit higher.
My advice for anybody who is researching this solution is to consider the total cost of ownership. It does not make sense to try and save money on hardware if you are going to have really expensive software. Be sure to look at the entire ecosystem, rather than the itemized cost. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
Nothing is simple about virtualization software products anymore. They are becoming more complex by the day. Now, with the advent of containers, the complexity has increased. Nothing is simple. Users must be dedicated to understand these VM solutions.
I recommend this for any customer wanting to reduce their licensing costs for packaged applications.
We have seen stability challenges if the storage and network is not rock solid. In fact, the most robust solutions are those where the integration is already done, namely Oracle PCA, Oracle ODA, and Oracle Exalogic. These can be a little expensive for smaller setups, though the ODA is a very interesting choice in such constrained budget scenarios.