"Very cost-effective."
"KVM is stable."
"The GUI interface makes the management of KVM easier than ever before."
"I like that it's easy to manage. It's also more powerful when it comes to security than others. That point of view is the one consideration. The other consideration is that it's cost-effective."
"It is easy to use, stable, and flexible. It is a pretty mature product, and it is faster than VirtualBox."
"If you prefer command-line, there are all kinds of command-line options."
"Good screen and keyboard sharing feature."
"This solution is open source and easy to configure."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"Technical support could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an improved user interface and dashboard. This type of improvement will make it easy or help our engineers understand the solution from a requirement point of view."
"There are some issues with the graphics and some software that is very complex."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"In our setup, we do not have any dashboards or orchestration, and it is hard to manage. We have 25 gig network cards, but the software driver we have only supported 10 gigs."
"Its resource usage can be improved."
"Business continuity features need to be added."
"One thing that maybe could be improved is making it easier to scale. It needs to be more clear on how to scale the storage space for virtual machines."
"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."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
KVM is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. KVM is rated 7.4, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Stable, easy to set up, and very easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "Good documentation and a simple setup but has a terrible licensing structure". KVM is most compared with Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere and RHEV, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE and RHEV. See our KVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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