We compared Oracle VM and Proxmox VE based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Oracle VM is praised for its performance, reliability, integration with Oracle products, robust security, and user-friendly interface. Users appreciate the efficient customer service, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. However, there are concerns about the complex interface and performance issues. On the other hand, Proxmox VE stands out for its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, performance, and management flexibility. Users commend the customer support, pricing structure, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement include interface simplicity, resource management, storage options, and support documentation.
Features: Oracle VM is valued for its strong performance, reliability, efficient resource management, seamless integration with Oracle products, and robust security. On the other hand, Proxmox VE is praised for its user-friendly interface, seamless integration with various virtualization technologies, excellent performance, and flexible management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of Oracle VM is considered straightforward and not overly complex, while Proxmox VE's initial setup cost is described as straightforward and not overly complicated. Both products offer flexible licensing options to cater to different organizational needs., Oracle VM has received positive feedback regarding its cost savings, efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and performance. Similarly, Proxmox VE has also provided favorable ROI with its positive outcomes and benefits.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM can be improved in terms of user-friendliness, navigation, performance, stability, software integration, and compatibility. On the other hand, Proxmox VE needs enhancement in user interface, resource management, storage options, and documentation and support materials.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews suggest that Oracle VM users have experienced varying timeframes for deployment and setup, which should be evaluated separately. On the other hand, Proxmox VE users have reported a significant variation in the duration required, with some spending three months on deployment and others only needing a week for both deployment and setup., Oracle VM's customer service is highly praised by users. They appreciate the promptness, efficiency, and knowledge of the support team. Proxmox VE's customer service is also highly praised, with users reporting prompt and reliable assistance from a knowledgeable support team.
The summary above is based on 42 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle VM and Proxmox VE users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It is a stable product."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"It's quite stable."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the linked clone."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."
"The template option allows us to build a desktop in a VM, then quickly deploy as a linked clone."
"KVM hypervisor is a valuable part of the solution."
"The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility."
"It is easier to balance loads across hypervisors if a given container or virtual machine uses more resources than its peers."
"Proxmox VE has many containers. You need to download the image and do basic configuration, after which it is operational within a few minutes. The solution provides many containers that are light in use and don't use a lot of memory. You don't have to spend a lot of resources."
"In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."
"Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"The facility of deployment is an area that needs to improve."
"Currently, there are several features inaccessible through the API, necessitating the use of either the WebUI or the command line interface."
"Its performance and support can be improved. Currently, there is a cost for support."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
"A feature which should be added is the ability to encrypt the main installation."
"It would be nice to have total CPU and RAM allocations show for all VMs/CTs to avoid overloading an individual hypervisor."
"The compatibility with non-English operating systems needs to be improved."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and RHEV. See our Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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