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 is a scalable solution."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"Oracle VM is user-friendly and facilitates compliance with Oracle Licensing, a feature not provided by competitors like VMware or Hyper-V. Oracle prefers customers to use their technology. It is also easy to implement, clone, and deploy machines with Oracle VM, making it a convenient solution."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"The solution makes migration easy."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"The solution is stable."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"It is very stable."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"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 documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"We'd like it if it would be possible on Red Hat Virtualization to possibly connect two or three VMs to the same disk."
"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."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
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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