We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Windows Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"Oracle Solaris was the preferred operating system for their customers to run their databases on and to get the best performance. It performs well with Oracle applications. Additionally, there are some features inside that are called zones which are Linux containers."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"Compared to other solutions, the ease of administration is great."
"I feel the solution to be stable."
"We find the initial implementation process to be quick and easy."
"Operating system with a good interface that can run applications."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We had it fully installed within one or two hours."
"We haven't had any issues with the server whatsoever. It's been very reliable."
"We have had no problems with Windows Server and we plan to continue using it in the future."
"The main features that we are using are active directory, domain, and DNS."
"I believe before Oracle was using Oracle Linux, they were using Oracle Solaris for their customers who are using Oracle databases. This was because it was more optimized for the hardware built for it. It has good performance for the database only. However, if you take it out of the Oracle applications, it will not do well compared to other operating systems, such as Linux or even Windows can have better performance."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"With Microsoft, there are always bugs, and the stability could be improved."
"The reporting, event logging, and event management functionalities need to be improved."
"They can simplify the utilization and control of the system when you have a lot of setups. They provided something called Windows Center or Control Center in version 2019. It's a free tool that comes with the Windows Server. You can install it on your desktop and use it. This tool simplifies the control and monitoring of all servers. If I have 200 servers, I don't need to log in to each one to configure it. I can manage them from this tool. However, this tool needs quite a lot of improvements. It's difficult to use, and they need to improve it."
"The solution could be more reasonably priced."
"The product has certain shortcomings related to security capability in the area of incident response, making it the tool's component where improvements are required."
"The solution's licensing cost is expensive and could be improved."
"Perhaps the scalability could be better."
"The security should be improved."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 4th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 180 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while Windows Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server writes "Easy to setup, stable and caters to my wide range of use cases but lacks user-friendly interface". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and Google Chrome Enterprise, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Windows Server report.
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