2020-06-15T07:35:00Z
RS
Senior Manager at NCS Group
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Oracle VM vs VMWare ESXi: Pros and Cons

I'm looking to understand what are the pros and cons of OVM vs ESXi?

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SA
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at DHA
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2021-07-28T09:29:17Z
Jul 28, 2021

Technically both products are good enough.


But as tested, Oracle VM is best for Oracle Databases & Apps.


While VMWare is best for Windows and linux VMs .

Oracle databases, as well as apps performance, are much better and stable on the Oracle VM server. E.g., 1TB of the VM is cloned in just five minutes. The backend file system is different. 

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TB
DBA at Unitymedia Business
Real User
2020-08-19T10:21:00Z
Aug 19, 2020

Oracle OVM is replaced by oracle OLVM. KVM replace XEN. oracle is cheaper than VMware and Oracle allows hard partioning on their products. So the license costs for the Oracle database or WebLogic server can be reduced. 

MM
Senior Database Architect at summ-it
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2020-09-09T14:37:39Z
Sep 9, 2020

VMware is more popular. OVM or better OLVM is good for Oracle products because provides "hard paritioning".

SA
CEO at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
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2020-07-26T19:12:36Z
Jul 26, 2020

I am just a newbie in Red Hat/Linux VM - KVM. I don’t think I can be of help here. You could ask one of the EU Red Hat representatives from the business card included for better help.

Real User
2020-06-18T11:07:52Z
Jun 18, 2020

I recommend VMware, which is stable when putting it to production, you just need a server with enough memory and you will realize that VMware is the one.

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