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 product's user interface could be more intuitive for less experienced users. Improved monitoring and reporting on storage usage would benefit better resource management.
Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated. The integration console could also be made a bit more user-friendly. Sometimes, the API calls and procedures are a bit complicated. Not everyone is familiar with the systems and how to work with them, but a little easier steps would do better. The console is clear, but the integration side of it, sometimes, the Oracle Cloud doesn't have an IDCS user. Normally, in the integration of Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), it is useless. But now there's no Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) IDCS because it's been compressed to domain-based. So, it's domain-based right now. There's no ID here. Everyone has access, depending on the policy and access. However, in specific environments, like GovCloud, there need to be more upgrades. Maybe it's because it's GovCloud; it's like that. However, the integration part becomes a little complicated in terms of the GovCloud log, where we have to make adjustments. There are no IDCS users, so we need to put in an IAM user and implement the policies. The integration of the VM agent and connectivity agent becomes a little complicated.
Oracle VM offers a basic user interface for local VM management. However, enhancing usability and functionality requires additional features such as improved user-friendliness, expanded options, comprehensive reporting, and robust monitoring capabilities. Integration with backup and monitoring solutions is essential due to compatibility challenges with other applications and multiple solutions available in the market. Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions.
The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement. If you restart the machine to implement a feature through auto-start, you should get a tray icon or a service without the need for any additional tuning or scripts.
The integration aspect may benefit from some enhancement. Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial.
An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added. It should allow virtual machines in one site, and replicate them to a different side.
Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another. If you have two Oracle KVM hypervisors without central storage and want to replicate a clone from one hypervisor to another, there is no technology to do that. Oracle VM needs to change or refine its partition system. Oracle OVM takes five minutes to one hour to clone a system.
The solution is an outdated Xen-based application. They only perform maintenance support for it. The new version is Oracle Linux Virtualization, which is a re-skinned version of the over stack, basically the same as the one that Red Hat sells. They could harmonize management between their products better.
There's room for improvement in terms of productivity in Oracle VM, because I find Nutanix has better productivity. Oracle VM can have future improvements through the addition of newer features. I'm also looking forward to a newer product version for Oracle VM, including making it compatible with Kubernetes and other modern technologies.
The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued. Whatever it is there today, version 3.4.7, that's the last version that will be issued. They are now done with it completely.
Manager, IT at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-12-06T23:48:00Z
Dec 6, 2021
I would like to be able to take all our logs and ship them to a corporate site. However, this feature could exist and I just haven't had the chance to explore that.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-06-08T12:44:51Z
Jun 8, 2021
I would like to simplify the processes to implement. When you want to implement Oracle, the steps that you perform could be simplified. The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly.
The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface by moving away from OVMM to OVM or KVM which uses the oVirt engine and has a completely new feel for the user interface, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better and more intuitive. 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. Just keep it simple.
I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach. VMware, in comparison, has got so many different features that you can use in ESXi for example. Oracle is a lot simpler with fewer features. I find their VM backup features to be somewhat difficult. I wish it was a little easier to back up and clone. It would be ideal if Oracle could grow to take on VMware directly, in order to foster more competition.
IT Team Lead Planning & Assets at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-10-01T09:57:49Z
Oct 1, 2020
Based on my experience, I don't do enough to actually dislike any of the features that I use. When deploying machines, we had a couple of issues, where it took up two to three times before it ran with no issues. Integration with cloud products would be beneficial. At the moment, a lot of companies actually have that available with on-premise. The security improvement around it, to integrate it with the cloud. It's something that every company is now focusing on. That would be the way to go.
They could improve deployment by making the documentation easier. Also, I always find it difficult to mount the image on the Oracle VM. There are a few things that could be improved, features such as mounting and unmounting the images on Oracle VM.
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-08-03T06:11:08Z
Aug 3, 2020
The solution lacks a lot of extra key features. If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2. There's an overall lack of integration with other software and there is also a lack of integration with backup solutions. Oracle has stated that they intend to improve the solution. I'm not sure when this will happen, however. It may have been declared end of life, therefore, I can't imagine that they'll actually add to it at this point.
IT Infrastructure Lead at iConnect IT Business Solutions DMCC
Real User
Top 5
2020-07-26T08:19:00Z
Jul 26, 2020
I'm still evaluating the product and getting to know it. The only thing I'm finding is that the backup software, which is supporting Oracle's virtualization platform, needs improvement. We're struggling to get a solution that will support my Oracle virtualization environment for backup purposes. I just found one on the internet. I was trying to reach out to that team now, to see how best we can use it. However, if Oracle had a solution to this, that would be ideal. You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there. There are some articles that are publicly available, but there are some important documents that are not available to the public. You need to subscribe, or you need to have a licensed copy, some subscription with the product. Any product, at the end of the day, needs support. When the support or the knowledge base or the information is not available or the documentation is not available for any of this, for the person who is implementing this, it's very difficult for them to get used to this product. They will simply move to another product.
The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product. If there was an option that made customization easier, it would make for a better solution. The solution needs to be more integration capabilities overall.
I would like to see better orchestration, as it would help in terms of setup. Better automation would help in terms of provisioning and configuring new VMs. Oracle VM should be more feature-rich. Using this product should come at no charge, regardless of the platform.
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.
I do not think this solution is as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has really been trying to update the solution with the most recent release, and I find it is less buggy than it had been. In addition, I think Oracle VM should integrate its own backups rather than relying on other Oracle tools for virtual backups.
Manager-Data Center at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-01-06T18:17:00Z
Jan 6, 2019
There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading VM software solutions have this feature.
* ability to use live migration and cpu pinning together would be very useful. for example reserving certain physical cpus on the target system prior tothe live migration for example.
Currently, there are some cases when the GUI and the back-end go out of sync. For example, the GUI shows the VM as running whereas it is actually already shut down. This could be improved.
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The product could improve network virtualization and hardware utilization functionalities.
The product's user interface could be more intuitive for less experienced users. Improved monitoring and reporting on storage usage would benefit better resource management.
Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated. The integration console could also be made a bit more user-friendly. Sometimes, the API calls and procedures are a bit complicated. Not everyone is familiar with the systems and how to work with them, but a little easier steps would do better. The console is clear, but the integration side of it, sometimes, the Oracle Cloud doesn't have an IDCS user. Normally, in the integration of Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), it is useless. But now there's no Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) IDCS because it's been compressed to domain-based. So, it's domain-based right now. There's no ID here. Everyone has access, depending on the policy and access. However, in specific environments, like GovCloud, there need to be more upgrades. Maybe it's because it's GovCloud; it's like that. However, the integration part becomes a little complicated in terms of the GovCloud log, where we have to make adjustments. There are no IDCS users, so we need to put in an IAM user and implement the policies. The integration of the VM agent and connectivity agent becomes a little complicated.
Oracle VM offers a basic user interface for local VM management. However, enhancing usability and functionality requires additional features such as improved user-friendliness, expanded options, comprehensive reporting, and robust monitoring capabilities. Integration with backup and monitoring solutions is essential due to compatibility challenges with other applications and multiple solutions available in the market. Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions.
Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature.
The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement. If you restart the machine to implement a feature through auto-start, you should get a tray icon or a service without the need for any additional tuning or scripts.
The integration aspect may benefit from some enhancement. Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial.
An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added. It should allow virtual machines in one site, and replicate them to a different side.
Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another. If you have two Oracle KVM hypervisors without central storage and want to replicate a clone from one hypervisor to another, there is no technology to do that. Oracle VM needs to change or refine its partition system. Oracle OVM takes five minutes to one hour to clone a system.
The solution's management, hardware, and backup recovery features could be better.
The tool's price and stability could be better.
The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey. This tool isn't for every company. It's very complex.
The solution is an outdated Xen-based application. They only perform maintenance support for it. The new version is Oracle Linux Virtualization, which is a re-skinned version of the over stack, basically the same as the one that Red Hat sells. They could harmonize management between their products better.
There's room for improvement in terms of productivity in Oracle VM, because I find Nutanix has better productivity. Oracle VM can have future improvements through the addition of newer features. I'm also looking forward to a newer product version for Oracle VM, including making it compatible with Kubernetes and other modern technologies.
There have been some security issues in the past. Having even more integration with other products would be an improvement.
The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued. Whatever it is there today, version 3.4.7, that's the last version that will be issued. They are now done with it completely.
I would like to be able to take all our logs and ship them to a corporate site. However, this feature could exist and I just haven't had the chance to explore that.
I would like to simplify the processes to implement. When you want to implement Oracle, the steps that you perform could be simplified. The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly.
The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface by moving away from OVMM to OVM or KVM which uses the oVirt engine and has a completely new feel for the user interface, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better and more intuitive. 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. Just keep it simple.
I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach. VMware, in comparison, has got so many different features that you can use in ESXi for example. Oracle is a lot simpler with fewer features. I find their VM backup features to be somewhat difficult. I wish it was a little easier to back up and clone. It would be ideal if Oracle could grow to take on VMware directly, in order to foster more competition.
Based on my experience, I don't do enough to actually dislike any of the features that I use. When deploying machines, we had a couple of issues, where it took up two to three times before it ran with no issues. Integration with cloud products would be beneficial. At the moment, a lot of companies actually have that available with on-premise. The security improvement around it, to integrate it with the cloud. It's something that every company is now focusing on. That would be the way to go.
They could improve deployment by making the documentation easier. Also, I always find it difficult to mount the image on the Oracle VM. There are a few things that could be improved, features such as mounting and unmounting the images on Oracle VM.
The solution lacks a lot of extra key features. If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2. There's an overall lack of integration with other software and there is also a lack of integration with backup solutions. Oracle has stated that they intend to improve the solution. I'm not sure when this will happen, however. It may have been declared end of life, therefore, I can't imagine that they'll actually add to it at this point.
I'm still evaluating the product and getting to know it. The only thing I'm finding is that the backup software, which is supporting Oracle's virtualization platform, needs improvement. We're struggling to get a solution that will support my Oracle virtualization environment for backup purposes. I just found one on the internet. I was trying to reach out to that team now, to see how best we can use it. However, if Oracle had a solution to this, that would be ideal. You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there. There are some articles that are publicly available, but there are some important documents that are not available to the public. You need to subscribe, or you need to have a licensed copy, some subscription with the product. Any product, at the end of the day, needs support. When the support or the knowledge base or the information is not available or the documentation is not available for any of this, for the person who is implementing this, it's very difficult for them to get used to this product. They will simply move to another product.
The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product. If there was an option that made customization easier, it would make for a better solution. The solution needs to be more integration capabilities overall.
I would like to see better orchestration, as it would help in terms of setup. Better automation would help in terms of provisioning and configuring new VMs. Oracle VM should be more feature-rich. Using this product should come at no charge, regardless of the platform.
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.
I do not think this solution is as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has really been trying to update the solution with the most recent release, and I find it is less buggy than it had been. In addition, I think Oracle VM should integrate its own backups rather than relying on other Oracle tools for virtual backups.
There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading VM software solutions have this feature.
Snapshotting could be easier. And there could be more intuitive ways for cloning of virtual machines.
* ability to use live migration and cpu pinning together would be very useful. for example reserving certain physical cpus on the target system prior tothe live migration for example.
Currently, there are some cases when the GUI and the back-end go out of sync. For example, the GUI shows the VM as running whereas it is actually already shut down. This could be improved.