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."I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"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."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"It's a very mature product."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"The most valuable feature of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is its pricing."
"The price is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's much cheaper than, for example, VMware."
"Stability and speed are the most valuable aspects."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"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 solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is easy to deal with when comes to application migration and its compatibility with the multiple component applications."
"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 solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."
"An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added."
"The availability of technical expertise with the solution may be limited in some areas."
"This solution could be more secure."
"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."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."
"The solution has a very small lifecycle."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 77 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 32 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, 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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