We performed a comparison between KVM and Oracle VM based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, KVM comes out ahead. It has the speed, stability, and flexibility that make it a very desirable solution for today’s rapidly-changing, ever-growing tech environment. This particular Oracle product, although very mature, has not done enough to stay competitive.
"The most helpful aspect of KVM is the fact that the interface is so minimal. It includes just what you need to set up the VMs and manage them, and it's very simple to do so."
"It is an open ecosystem, and we see there is a benefit in open-source solutions."
"The product is really good...One can get good performance because of kernel-based virtualization."
"This solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The product's scalability is good...It's a very stable product."
"It offers a high-availability environment."
"The KVM service is well managed with a central policy interface."
"I appreciate the network passcode feature in KVM, as it provides a convenient way to manage DNS and cloud hosting."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"It's quite stable."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One problem I have is that it's not very scalable when it comes to resizing the VM disk dimensions. For example, if you have initially set a virtual drive to 10 GB and you want to upgrade it to 15 GB, it's not that easy."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"The stability of this solution is less than other products in the same category."
"The product must provide better performance monitoring features."
"Its resource usage can be improved."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"I have encountered difficulties in getting the tool's documentation."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"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."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"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."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV. See our KVM vs. Oracle VM report.
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