We compared Oracle VM and Proxmox VE based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Oracle VM is praised for its performance, reliability, integration with Oracle products, robust security, and user-friendly interface. Users appreciate the efficient customer service, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. However, there are concerns about the complex interface and performance issues. On the other hand, Proxmox VE stands out for its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, performance, and management flexibility. Users commend the customer support, pricing structure, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement include interface simplicity, resource management, storage options, and support documentation.
Features: Oracle VM is valued for its strong performance, reliability, efficient resource management, seamless integration with Oracle products, and robust security. On the other hand, Proxmox VE is praised for its user-friendly interface, seamless integration with various virtualization technologies, excellent performance, and flexible management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of Oracle VM is considered straightforward and not overly complex, while Proxmox VE's initial setup cost is described as straightforward and not overly complicated. Both products offer flexible licensing options to cater to different organizational needs., Oracle VM has received positive feedback regarding its cost savings, efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and performance. Similarly, Proxmox VE has also provided favorable ROI with its positive outcomes and benefits.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM can be improved in terms of user-friendliness, navigation, performance, stability, software integration, and compatibility. On the other hand, Proxmox VE needs enhancement in user interface, resource management, storage options, and documentation and support materials.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews suggest that Oracle VM users have experienced varying timeframes for deployment and setup, which should be evaluated separately. On the other hand, Proxmox VE users have reported a significant variation in the duration required, with some spending three months on deployment and others only needing a week for both deployment and setup., Oracle VM's customer service is highly praised by users. They appreciate the promptness, efficiency, and knowledge of the support team. Proxmox VE's customer service is also highly praised, with users reporting prompt and reliable assistance from a knowledgeable support team.
The summary above is based on 42 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle VM and Proxmox VE users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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 network. The security is set."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"It's a very mature product."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"Proxmox VE is simple to use and it is feature rich. The fact is that it performs,"
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its storage."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"Saves a lot of time compared to imaging physical desktops."
"The ability to back up a host and keep it running is valuable."
"There are many features included with Proxmox."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"The solution is not good at upgrading and this is why I using version 6.2 and not version 7. There is no easy way to implement the upgrade. I don't have enough experience to do it safely."
"The only issue I have with Proxmox VE is updating it. You have to manually update it or you have to have a way to update it automatically."
"One issue with Proxmox is that some processes are not automatic. For some processes, you have to do it manually by command line."
"The tool needs to add a lot of containers."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"Proxmox VE can improve by importing OVF or OVA files directly from OVA. I need to convert all the images to raw images before importing them to Proxmox VE. If there is a solution that I can import directly from VMDK, it would be better."
"Currently, there are several features inaccessible through the API, necessitating the use of either the WebUI or the command line interface."
"Proxmox VE needs to make a deal with Veeam. I was also unable to make version upgrades. I have also encountered backup problems."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and RHEV. See our Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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