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."Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"It's quite stable."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"The product is really easy to use."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"The features are good."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"The product works well."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"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."
"Productivity in Oracle VM could still be improved, and an additional feature to make the product better is compatibility with Kubernetes and other modern technologies."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"The support can be improved."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors."
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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