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."The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The network capabilities are good."
"It is easy to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software."
"I can control and manage everything. I know everything that's cooking inside. This is the best part for me."
"The solution is stable."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"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."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"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 configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"We'd like it if it would be possible on Red Hat Virtualization to possibly connect two or three VMs to the same disk."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"We hope that Red Hat can produce a paradigm edition. We are looking for paradigm computing and paradigm storage. Its scalability can be improved. It is not easy to scale, and we hope that Red Hat can provide a more scalable system. They should also provide local service and support. Our customers are looking for a good software vendor to provide professional services."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
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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