Oracle VM and Hyper-V compete in virtualization technology. Hyper-V seems to have the upper hand with its seamless integration with Windows environments, enhancing its appeal for organizations within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Features: Oracle VM enhances deployment efficiency with pre-configured templates and supports robust database management on Linux, offering flexible CPU-based licensing for cost-effectiveness. It integrates seamlessly with Oracle products, facilitating scalability without additional servers. Hyper-V provides dynamic memory allocation, advanced networking support, and live migration capabilities, integrating excellently with Windows Server and Microsoft tools for automation.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM could advance in synchronization and integration with external storage networks, and improve its snapshot and monitoring features. Hyper-V requires a more user-friendly network configuration, better integration options for non-Windows systems, and simplified clustering and management tools.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle VM is easy to deploy in Oracle environments with varying customer service quality, with noted needs in technical routing. Hyper-V eases deployment within Windows systems with the benefit of Microsoft's direct support, though some initial learning curves exist in resource management.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle VM offers cost savings by eliminating license fees for Oracle hardware users, favoring businesses with Oracle products through its CPU-based pricing model. Hyper-V includes low pricing within Windows licensing but may incur additional costs for management tools or clustering, yet it remains cost-effective within a Microsoft infrastructure.
Technical support from Microsoft is excellent, rated ten out of ten.
The technical support for Hyper-V is excellent
The technical support is very good
The scalability of Hyper-V is great; I would rate it nine out of ten.
Hyper V can support over two hundred virtual processors and around 12 TB of memory.
Automation is unavailable, and reporting is difficult.
Frequent Windows updates can impact stability compared to VMware ESXi.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
In future updates, I would like to see improvements in reporting and a resolution to some security weaknesses.
All the actions are manual, and if customization is needed, it is difficult with Hyper-V.
Hyper-V should ensure the features of VMware are covered within its platform.
If I have limited systems and there is maintenance on the hardware, the Oracle systems are impacted.
Not every upgrade goes smoothly, and after an upgrade, it sometimes stops working.
Hyper-V is completely free and requires no licensing fee.
Currently, VMware has a high price in the market, and I think Microsoft has a competitive pricing structure.
Hyper-V's licensing costs are lower compared to VMware, making it cost-effective for smaller workloads.
Oracle VM is not a very expensive solution.
It is completely free, which is a significant advantage.
For backup and disaster recovery with Hyper-V, we do the same as others by using snapshots, and we can integrate it with any backup system.
It offers the stability needed for non-enterprise data centers and has improved over time.
If there is an issue with the operating system running on top of it, there's no primary and secondary domain, rather segregated I/Os, disks, memory, everything assigned to a logical domain.
It is easy to copy or clone one Oracle workstation to another.
Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization tool that allows users to create virtual computer environments with multiple operating systems on a single physical server. Each virtual machine has computer parts, such as memory, processor, storage, and networking, and acts like a standard computer - running its own operating system and software programs. Each component of the virtual machine can be configured to meet your specific requirements.
Hyper-V creates a cost-effective, stable, and productive server virtualization environment by running multiple operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and more, in parallel on one machine or server. Each virtual machine runs in its own isolated space, which means you can run many virtual machines simultaneously but independently of each other. This helps prevent problems such as a crash affecting the other workloads and enables different users to separately access various systems.
Benefits of Hyper-V
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Reviews from Real Users
Hyper-V stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its flexibility, its replication capabilities, and the fact that its virtual machines utilize a small amount of resources..
Liam L., the owner of a tech services company, writes, “It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage.”
Kevin E. an IT director at Homeland Technology Group, LLC, notes, “We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time.”
Oracle VM for x86
Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud.
Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.
Oracle VM for SPARC
Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.
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