We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"The stability is rock solid."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It is a stable product."
"It's quite stable."
"Instead of relying on dual-boot operating systems, I can utilize open-source tools within my infrastructure. This approach allows me to create an in-house cloud platform suitable for testing. VMware Workstation enables me to perform tasks across various operating systems using a single device. It has helped me save time."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"The performance is good."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The product is really easy to use."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"The price of VMware Workstation is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. 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 VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and VMware Workspace ONE.
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