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 cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"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."
"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."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"The most valuable features of RHEV are all the tools, such as virtualization, management of cloud platforms, and integration of container environments. The solution has good compatibility between virtualization, content management, and cloud management. Having the full set of these tools is the advantage of it."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"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."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"Its database management features could be better."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"Configuring the network interfaces is much better in Ubuntu and should be improved."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"In comparison to VMware, this solution isn't as stable. We're testing it right now, and we're not trusting the stability of the product."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
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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