We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VMware VSphere got better user reviews. One major difference between the two solutions is that users say VMware VSphere is more user-friendly than Oracle VM.
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"The stability is rock solid."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It is a scalable solution."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"The product is very easy to install."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"Its database management features could be better."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The quality of support could be better."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"The solution could be more stable."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 55 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.4, while VMware vSphere is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "Robust, mature, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Strong performance, works well with large infrastructures but it is quite expensive". Oracle VM is most compared with KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Oracle VM vs. VMware vSphere report.
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VMware VSphere is better than Oracle VM because on Oracle Virtual machine migration is not an easy task as in VSphere due to complications existing in Oracle VM.
Also, Oracle VM is limited in features compared to VMware.
Oracle VM is limited also in communicating with other virtualization platforms like VMware.
If you need performance then Oracle OVM is more reliable.
Otherwise, VMWare is good enough. We are using 4 virtualization platforms in the production, development and test environments.
Technically, Oracle OVM is the best for Oracle products apps/databases. VMware is for Linux guest OS.
And hyper-v is for a Windows guest OS but hyper-v lacks network security and configuration.
Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is considered to be quite good. Oracle VM’s customer service and technical support are really outstanding. With this solution, you have the ability to patch with no downtime. Oracle has been around for a long time. It is complete in terms of its features, functionalities, and sophistication. It may provide good documentation and be easy to set up, but it has a terrible licensing structure. Oracle VM may help a company manage its costs, but that can come at another expense for a company - you have to work with an antiquated system.
VMware VSphere is fairly priced. Like Oracle VM, it provides near-zero downtime services. I think the way information is monitored needs to be improved. I feel like they need to have a better solution for hybrid clouds and migration to the cloud. It would also be nice to have additional integration options with different solutions at the application level (for example, Kubernetes). One of the biggest issues I have with it, is the firmware management of the underlying hardware. For firmware upgrades, for example, you have to take down your entire system. Even though it makes it easy to create virtual machines, it could be more user-friendly. In addition, the customer service and technical support seem to be average, but nothing spectacular. Overall, I would say that VMware VSphere is pretty stable and implementation is fairly easy.
Conclusion:
I’m not overly thrilled about either solution, but having had experience with both, I think VMware VSphere is better because it is easy to scale, pretty easy to use, easy to maintain and is mostly stable. And also, while Oracle VM may be more well known, I am not willing to work with an outdated product, especially since there are multiple other modern solutions available.