We performed a comparison between KVM and Oracle VM based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, KVM comes out ahead. It has the speed, stability, and flexibility that make it a very desirable solution for today’s rapidly-changing, ever-growing tech environment. This particular Oracle product, although very mature, has not done enough to stay competitive.
"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."
"KVM is stable."
"This solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The GUI interface makes the management of KVM easier than ever before."
"Very 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."
"I have found KVM to be scalable."
"It's quite stable."
"The network capabilities are good."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"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."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"It's a very mature product."
"I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"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."
"Business continuity features need to be added."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"There are some issues with the graphics and some software that is very complex."
"Its resource usage can be improved."
"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."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"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."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 9 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 13 reviews. KVM is rated 7.4, while Oracle VM is rated 8.6. 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, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and VMware Workstation, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV. See our KVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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