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PROS

Oracle VM offers policy-based management and application resource flexibility.
It simplifies monitoring and testing, especially when used with Oracle Linux and Citrix.
The support staff at Oracle has improved and is highly regarded.
Its scalability, stability, and ease of management are highly valued.
The cost-effectiveness is appreciated, making Oracle VM a preferred choice for its unlimited VM provisioning at no extra cost.

CONS

Oracle VM requires extensive documentation and has a complex setup process, making it difficult to configure and use effectively.
It lacks comprehensive monitoring features and metrics, requiring homemade scripts for tracking performance and utilization.
Integration capabilities with third-party platforms and internal systems are complicated and not intuitive, needing improvement.
Oracle VM does not support memory and CPU over-subscription, limiting its capability compared to other virtualization software.
Frequent stability issues, particularly after upgrades or related to storage dependencies, lead to failures that require system downgrades.
 

Oracle VM Pros review quotes

it_user1017 - PeerSpot reviewer
eCommerce Expert at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 27, 2012
It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI.
it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
May 17, 2016
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_user522204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Temperies
Sep 28, 2016
Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows.
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SrLinuxS2a6c - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Linux Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 1, 2017
In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation.
LF
Oracle VM SME at OneNeck IT Services
Nov 8, 2017
The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database.​
it_user769614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Mythics Inc
Nov 8, 2017
Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
Aug 5, 2020
The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful.
Reviewer308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 26, 2018
It is very useful for the project management of our company.
AC
‎Senior Presales Engineer of DataCenter and Digital Transformation at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Dec 19, 2018
It is a stable product.
reviewer613782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager-Data Center at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 6, 2019
The stability of the product is fine.
 

Oracle VM Cons review quotes

it_user1017 - PeerSpot reviewer
eCommerce Expert at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 27, 2012
Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you.
it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
May 17, 2016
It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it.
it_user522204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Temperies
Sep 28, 2016
I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments.
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SrLinuxS2a6c - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Linux Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 1, 2017
With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration.
LF
Oracle VM SME at OneNeck IT Services
Nov 8, 2017
I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for.
it_user769614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Mythics Inc
Nov 8, 2017
One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
Aug 5, 2020
We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve.
Reviewer308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 26, 2018
Integrating with the internal system is not very easy.
AC
‎Senior Presales Engineer of DataCenter and Digital Transformation at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Dec 19, 2018
It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me.
reviewer613782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager-Data Center at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 6, 2019
There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature.