We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The stability is rock solid."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"The simplicity of the deployment and the implementation, and the footprint for the hardware are some of the solution's valuable features."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"The product is outdated."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while VMware Workstation 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM and VMware Horizon View.
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