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 solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The network capabilities are good."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"It is a stable product."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The stability is rock solid."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available."
"The solution is stable."
"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 most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"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."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"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."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The UI should be more interactive with additional features."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."
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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