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Oracle VM Primary Use Case

RJ
Owner at Inforex

I mostly use it on a personal computer for multiple services like databases. However, I do not run all of them at the same time. I run the one that is needed at the moment, and then I work on an application that uses this exact database or this exact environment.

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reviewer2088135 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I use this for virtualization. Suppose I am acquiring hardware with high cores and high memory. For example, consider getting physical hardware with 16 cores and specific memory. Suppose a database requires two to four cores and a certain amount of memory. I create one logical domain on top of the physical domain and install that particular product on it. 

If I want to take it to the next level, imagine creating a logical domain of 16 cores with 256 gigabytes of memory. On top of that, I would install the type one Solaris Zones for other virtualization. On the physical level, I have a virtualized and logical domain with Zones on it for the other virtualization of different systems.

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Nitin Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

We are working with Oracle VM and Oracle OLVM.

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AF
IT Technology Manager at Americana Group

We mostly use the solution for Oracle products, middleware, and databases.

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Rasika Sudasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director - Systems Architecture at MIT ESP

Oracle VM is an alternative solution for VMware and ESXi and is a low-cost proposition. Oracle VM is free in my facility.

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MV
Senior Oracle DBA at ChipCard

We primarily use it in our PCI industry solutions and for Oracle middleware, which connects applications to Oracle databases and provides web services.

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Murali  - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engg at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

I was using it for my project work. Our product, where I was working, needed support in Oracle VM, so I was trying to explore how our product could be used on top of Oracle VM. It was primarily to support our product on Oracle VM. That is mostly the use case I was trying for.

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Andre-Rocha - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Specialist at Deverg

We use the solution to deliver the correct license validation for the Oracle database. They advised us to use the Oracle VM for some environments.

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DK
CEO at iSolute Ltd

I use Oracle VM in my company mainly for simple things, not heavy stuff. In general, Oracle VM mainly helps with the monitoring of different servers.

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Saktid Devi Jeyakaran - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Cloud Engineer at Ebizoncloud LLC

We use it for the integration part, as a jump host, or to create an ABS VM for lift and shift. That's what we use it for.

I'm just involved in providing VMs; application testing and development are handled by a different department.

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Peter Karlsson - PeerSpot reviewer
System specialist at Savecore

The solution is a suite of products so it depends on the needs of the client. 

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Branko Cirovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Comtrade Group

Our clients primarily use Oracle VM for test databases, web, and application services. It serves as a versatile tool in our top solutions.

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LM
IT Architect at Grupa Wirtualna Polska

Oracle VM is the only certified technology that can be used for the virtualization of Oracle products to comply with Oracle license requirements. The solution is used to host Oracle products.

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Nur Hamdalah Kahfi - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead for research and development at HBM

It is designed for enterprise-level virtualization, offering features such as live migration, high availability, and centralized management.

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Felipe Domingos - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT and Senior Site Reliability Engineer and IT Ops Engineer at Padrão do Fonseca

We are using Oracle VM for containers, developing testing, and Kubernetes.

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Christophe JOBARD - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Direction GRID SAS

I'm usually working in the public sector or hospitals that have many critical systems, including the SKN information system or some emergency that are medical.

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RK
Chief Executive Officer CEO at IT CROWD S.A.S

Clients who have two or more servers and want to virtualize their processes can deploy Oracle VM, the Virtual Machine. It's comparable with something called hard partitioning so that they can comply with Oracle's licensing policies.

There are other products in the market from other vendors, however, those virtualization technologies are not certified with Oracle regarding their licensing policies. Oracle VM comes with something specific called hard partitioning, which has to physically update the CPU core to virtual machines. This is very important. It allows virtual machines to comply with Oracle licensing policies. Otherwise, we can have big issues regarding product licensing.

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BO
Director- Technical Services at Soft Alliance
MK
Enterprise Architect at Assore

We primarily use it for ERP in virtual environments.

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NH
Oracle Techno Sales consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I handle both sales and technical. We also sell cloud technology, so I do a lot of extensive work on cloud implementation.

We are Oracle Gold partners. We do a lot of deployments around Oracle VM. We are core in Oracle infrastructure and Oracle banking. When I say Oracle infrastructure, I'm looking at the x86 servers, also the SPARC servers. When you look at infrastructure, these not only carry the servers themselves, we look at the virtualization technology, which is definitely Oracle VM, both on SPARC and on x86.

Recently, we have been doing a kind of mix where the customer wants Dell and Oracle x86 VM.

I have done this deployment for an insurance company, and they have a lot of insurance solutions which run on the Oracle database. They could not go for the expensive Oracle server, so they decided to go for the Dell server but now are hard partitioning Oracle VM to cut down on the cost of licenses.

We have installed life insurance solutions on Oracle VM hard partitioned, and the general insurance solution is hard partitioned to focus on Oracle VM. They have a dock management system that uses Oracle database, hard partitioned also to focus on Oracle VM. They have a business intelligence solution which also uses Oracle database, also hard partitioned to Oracle VM.

We have actually created the production and VR with loads of VLANs swinging through both production and VR side, all on Oracle VM.

Storage is Dell Unisys storage, and then the computer is all Dell servers.

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Syed Abid  - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at LogicEra

We have a data center with multiple racks. The product Oracle VM Server is deployed on two of our HP G10 servers. Comparatively this product is more flexible & reliable for oracle Applications & Databases. we have all our PROD env on this platform and It also enables us to clone an oracle app / db product for a test environment within a few minutes. We are Oracle customers and I'm the system and infrastructure Admin.

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reviewer996648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and President at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees

I am an Oracle Specialist and manage Oracle databases. Oracle VM is being used in test-based environments, dedicated services. Being a product expert and an engineer, I help customers work with Oracle. I have seen this solution in customer organizations that are in excess of 10,000 users.

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EF
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The main use case of this solution is integration. The integration of the database and compatibility with the affiliate in terms of license management. This will reduce the cost of the license.

It is the same use case as vSan except that you can partition the applications and it forces you to license the processor, as opposed to the server.

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EA
CTO at Datacell

We have a few servers, and I tag them to the storage. Through that, we create VMs by provisioning some RAM, CPU, and storage. The RAM and the CPU get adjusted when we buy more servers to add to the cluster. 

We are not using its latest version. We are yet to migrate to its latest version.

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reviewer1184424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President of Data Journalism at a media company with 201-500 employees

Clients are typically running Linux on Oracle VM, and then they're running Oracle databases on top of that.

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reviewer1425744 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Team Lead Planning & Assets at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use Oracle VM for the ESX servers from NetApp. It's a product for development.

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reviewer1395378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We primarily use this solution strictly for Oracle licensed products.

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Suresh Bora - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Lead at iConnect IT Business Solutions DMCC

The solution is primarily used for server virtualization. We have opportunities that we want to learn from. For our customers, we recommend this product. We have Oracle databases or Oracle, Linux, or Red Hat Linux to run it on a virtual machine, and Oracle VM fits perfectly into that.

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RS
Senior Manager at NCS Group

We are using the virtual machine to host our databases and other applications.

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Fabrizio Bordacchini - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Systems Engineer at Cegeka

Our customers use the solution for database and service applications.

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reviewer1259991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure and Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a consulting company and one of the solutions that we assist our clients with is Oracle VM. I work with several different clients and they have different use cases.

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reviewer1029540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I manage the Oracle Cloud infrastructure, including all our VMs, firewalls and load balances.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

We use this solution For running our in house development work. As we work with Oracle packaged applications thius allows us to deploy a full red stack and prevents any application software vs hypervisor compatibility issues. We have also deployed this solution at many customer sites where we use it to reduce licensing impacts using cpu pinning to reduce the number of cores needed to be licensed for individual products such as oracle database and weblogic.

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AQ
Sr System Support Eng at Techaccess Pakistan

We generally recommend this solution to our customers and we deploy it for them. The solution runs on the exologic environment with multiple VMs and multiple abbreviations. In this case the solution is being used in a telecommunications company. Most of our clients are big enterprise. We partner with Oracle and I'm a senior systems support engineer. 

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

A disclaimer: Though I have been working with various flavours of Linux since Slackware 1.2 in 1996, and I more recently focus in more enterprise computing and Oracle Database, my opinions tend to be colored with those use cases. We use this Virtualization platform to host our internal development training and PoC environments. Though Oracel HAs increasingly been adding support for a KVM based solution in recent years many of their signature virtualization platforms like the private cloud appliance are OVM based.

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reviewer613782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager-Data Center at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

My primary use of this product is for a database. I use this solution because it can work together with our other Oracle solutions.

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IW
‎Solutions Consultant

I primarily use this for server virtualization. I also use it for application deployment. 

Oracle has a lot of templates for most of the enterprise application that they sell the market. So, it is easier to deploy those application using one Oracle VM template than actually setting up a server from scratch. Oracle VM is very handy in that a user can easily deploy the templates, pre-configures and does a few customizations within a short time-span.

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AC
‎Senior Presales Engineer of DataCenter and Digital Transformation at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

I primarily use this for demonstrations for customers. 

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Reviewer308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for project management.

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RF
DBA at dbafox

We are building a private cloud with Oracle VM. We want to implement Oracle RAC with Clusterware releases 12.2 and 18c, and with Oracle Database releases 11.2.0.4 to 18c.

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