We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"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."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Oracle VM are live migration and snapshots."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"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."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"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."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The GUI interface could 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."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
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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