KVM Pros
If you prefer command-line, there are all kinds of command-line options.
View full review »The GUI interface makes the management of KVM easier than ever before.
View full review »I like that it's easy to manage. It's also more powerful when it comes to security than others. That point of view is the one consideration. The other consideration is that it's cost-effective.
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Server Virtualization Software
July 2022

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SK
reviewer1012473
Co-Founder and CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Very cost-effective.
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reviewer1556802
Senior Linux System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is open source and easy to configure.
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reviewer1651380
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
KVM is stable.
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reviewer1455690
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees
It is easy to use, stable, and flexible. It is a pretty mature product, and it is faster than VirtualBox.
View full review »I have found KVM to be scalable.
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Sam-Chan
Technical Solution Manager at OneAsia
Good screen and keyboard sharing feature.
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One thing that maybe could be improved is making it easier to scale. It needs to be more clear on how to scale the storage space for virtual machines.
View full review »Business continuity features need to be added.
View full review »Technical support could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an improved user interface and dashboard. This type of improvement will make it easy or help our engineers understand the solution from a requirement point of view.
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Server Virtualization Software
July 2022

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SK
reviewer1012473
Co-Founder and CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack.
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reviewer1556802
Senior Linux System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are some issues with the graphics and some software that is very complex.
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reviewer1651380
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
In our setup, we do not have any dashboards or orchestration, and it is hard to manage. We have 25 gig network cards, but the software driver we have only supported 10 gigs.
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reviewer1455690
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees
Its resource usage can be improved.
View full review »I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support.
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Sam-Chan
Technical Solution Manager at OneAsia
Monitoring and resolution could be improved.
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Server Virtualization Software
July 2022

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