We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is highly stable."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"It is a stable product."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"It would be better if it demanded less memory. Once you have allocated those memory spaces for the installed server, fewer resources are left to allocate for the Hyper-V virtual environment. That's the drawback with that. For example, once you install Windows 10, and let's say Windows 2019, Windows 2019 will take at least 10 GB of memory. If a customer has only 16 GB of RAM on the system, they think of installing Hyper-V. Because when you have windows 2019 or something else, they give two free Hyper-V virtual licenses. But we can't because there's not enough memory. We can, however, install this as a VMS. But this UI isn't that user-friendly for most customers. They like to have a user interface with VMI, and it's not easy when you install VMI. It would also be better if they can improve their core Hyper-V version to be a bit more familiar and user-friendly with its interface. I think it would be much easier. We had a few issues with the VM Hyper-V virtual network. Once you have such issues, it's very difficult to find out where they came from. They had such issues, and we had to resolve the system again. But other than that, if it's useful and keeps working nicely, it will work very nicely even if something happens. But it's very hectic and challenging to find out where it's happening. In the next release, it would be better to control this data store part in a manageable way. This is because once we install and create a Hyper-V machine, it goes everywhere. It would be better if it had a single location and a single folder with a heartbeat and virtual machine information. You can just go forward, and the data store and everything are going into one place like the C drive. But something always goes fast, or everything gets lost if the customer doesn't manually change the direction of where the virtual hard drive routes, the more serious the problem. It would be better if they could merge all that together. This includes the virtual machine and the virtual hard drive in the same folder when creating the virtual machine. I think that it would be much easier to manage and in case something happens. Technical support also could be better."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"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."
"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."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and RHEV, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and RHEV. See our Hyper-V vs. Oracle VM report.
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