We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware ESXi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is simple and easy to use."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"It's quite stable."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"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 most valuable features of Oracle VM are live migration and snapshots."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"My customers are satisfied with the solution’s performance."
"The product is very reliable."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Productivity in Oracle VM could still be improved, and an additional feature to make the product better is compatibility with Kubernetes and other modern technologies."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"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."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while VMware ESXi is ranked 11th in Server Virtualization Software with 2 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while VMware ESXi is rated 8.0. 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 VMware ESXi writes "Reliable, is not affected by network issues, and provides good support". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Hyper-V, whereas VMware ESXi is most compared with . See our Oracle VM vs. VMware ESXi report.
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