We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"It is a stable product."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"Instead of relying on dual-boot operating systems, I can utilize open-source tools within my infrastructure. This approach allows me to create an in-house cloud platform suitable for testing. VMware Workstation enables me to perform tasks across various operating systems using a single device. It has helped me save time."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"I appreciate the ease of backup and snapshot creation. The ability to revert to previous versions without losing data is very useful for our team."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"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."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"Its database management features could be better."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"Installing VMware Workstation isn't so easy. It's highly complex compared to Windows. I rate it four out of 10 for ease of installation. Setting up a remote desktop only takes a minute or so, but the Workstation itself takes some time."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and VMware Workspace ONE.
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