We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VMware VSphere got better user reviews. One major difference between the two solutions is that users say VMware VSphere is more user-friendly than Oracle VM.
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"Oracle VM is user-friendly and facilitates compliance with Oracle Licensing, a feature not provided by competitors like VMware or Hyper-V. Oracle prefers customers to use their technology. It is also easy to implement, clone, and deploy machines with Oracle VM, making it a convenient solution."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Oracle VM is most compared with KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Oracle VM vs. VMware vSphere report.
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VMware VSphere is better than Oracle VM because on Oracle Virtual machine migration is not an easy task as in VSphere due to complications existing in Oracle VM.
Also, Oracle VM is limited in features compared to VMware.
Oracle VM is limited also in communicating with other virtualization platforms like VMware.
If you need performance then Oracle OVM is more reliable.
Otherwise, VMWare is good enough. We are using 4 virtualization platforms in the production, development and test environments.
Technically, Oracle OVM is the best for Oracle products apps/databases. VMware is for Linux guest OS.
And hyper-v is for a Windows guest OS but hyper-v lacks network security and configuration.
Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is considered to be quite good. Oracle VM’s customer service and technical support are really outstanding. With this solution, you have the ability to patch with no downtime. Oracle has been around for a long time. It is complete in terms of its features, functionalities, and sophistication. It may provide good documentation and be easy to set up, but it has a terrible licensing structure. Oracle VM may help a company manage its costs, but that can come at another expense for a company - you have to work with an antiquated system.
VMware VSphere is fairly priced. Like Oracle VM, it provides near-zero downtime services. I think the way information is monitored needs to be improved. I feel like they need to have a better solution for hybrid clouds and migration to the cloud. It would also be nice to have additional integration options with different solutions at the application level (for example, Kubernetes). One of the biggest issues I have with it, is the firmware management of the underlying hardware. For firmware upgrades, for example, you have to take down your entire system. Even though it makes it easy to create virtual machines, it could be more user-friendly. In addition, the customer service and technical support seem to be average, but nothing spectacular. Overall, I would say that VMware VSphere is pretty stable and implementation is fairly easy.
Conclusion:
I’m not overly thrilled about either solution, but having had experience with both, I think VMware VSphere is better because it is easy to scale, pretty easy to use, easy to maintain and is mostly stable. And also, while Oracle VM may be more well known, I am not willing to work with an outdated product, especially since there are multiple other modern solutions available.