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."Ability to patch with no downtime."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"It is a scalable solution."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"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."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We find the ease of use of this solution to be invaluable. It is user-friendly and integrates well with other software."
"Red Hat is the most stable system."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"It is very stable."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"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."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"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"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"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."
"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 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."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews while RHEV is ranked 10th in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while RHEV is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "Flexible solution with extensive features like OVM Manager, enabling you to avoid hard coding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RHEV writes "An easy initial setup with fair pricing and good reliability". 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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