We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and RHEV 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."Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"Customers are moving to open source and Red Hat is the leader in this particular space. I think customers feel more confident running Red Hat Virtualization than VMware."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"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."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"The support is tricky in a few places. We're facing some challenges within Malaysia where we don't really have the system integrators available who can provide extended support. When we need personnel on-site, we can't get them."
"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."
"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly."
"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while RHEV is rated 7.6. 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 RHEV writes "Offers frameworks with well-documented API and easy to use". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and VMware Workstation, whereas RHEV is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Oracle VM vs. RHEV report.
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