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."It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The price is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's much cheaper than, for example, VMware."
"It's a scalable solution."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"Stability and speed are the most valuable aspects."
"It is easy to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications."
"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."
"It is very stable."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Its database management features could be better."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"It would be better to have more patches, especially kernel-level updates, live and online so that we can keep the business up and running during this period."
"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."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"This solution could be more secure."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 77 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, 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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