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 ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"I like the functionality."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The solution has good scalability."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"The network capabilities are good."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"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 is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"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."
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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