We performed a comparison between Oracle VM, Proxmox VE, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Good visualization hypervisor."
"The network capabilities are good."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"Less infrastructure required; simple to use."
"The tool has very good performance."
"Ease of use, HA, internal 100gbps Virtio network, built-in backup (don't pay $1200 Veeam licence), support for multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM, no need to RDP in the VMs to do your stuff (Win, Linux and Mac with SPICE and using 6 screens here (11520*2160)."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"Its compatibility is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"The solution is easy to install. It can run on a lot of different types of hardware. Creating virtual machines with it is really easy."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"It helps us with TCO."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"vRealize Operations Manager is the most valuable feature, but it is not embedded in vSphere; it is a part of vSphere. It is used for forecasting and checking the consumption of CPU, memory, and other resources. It has the capability to do the forecast based on the history and give advice on consumption. VMware vSphere is easy to use and easy to implement. Its learning curve is not sharp. Any engineer with little or medium knowledge of hypervisors and virtualizations can implement vSphere with a few clicks."
"Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated."
"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."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"Its database management features could be better."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"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."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
"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."
"The Windows drivers could be easier (unlike manually installing Ballon, QEMU and optionally SPICE, VIRTio, etc.)"
"Backup and recovery could be better. It's a bit problematic. If you're not well-versed with Linux, it tends to be a bit of a challenge when setting up and recovering. It's not really GUI-based, and if you're not a good Linux user, it becomes a bit difficult. In the next release, I would like to have something like Hyper-V's Data Protection Manager, where you could do an offsite backup and keep a copy. I haven't seen that incorporated yet, but I'm sure they will do that."
"There should be a helm feature for managing Kubernetes ports directly from the Proxmox traffic interface."
"The virtualization can be better."
"My impression is that currently, this solution is not stable even after multiple versions of improvements."
"We find it difficult to find the root cause of the issues."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"The price could be better."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"The solution is quite expensive."
