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.
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"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."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"We now have the ability to quickly build and deploy VM desktops for application testing with the snapshot ability to rollback, as required."
"It is easy to deploy."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. 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."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"The availability of the solution could be a bit better."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"The only disadvantage of Proxmox VE is that it is a young solution so it does have some bugs."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"The documentation in Proxmox VE could improve."
"I would like to see more monitoring in the next release of this solution."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 77 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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