We compared Oracle VM and Proxmox VE based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Oracle VM is praised for its performance, reliability, integration with Oracle products, robust security, and user-friendly interface. Users appreciate the efficient customer service, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. However, there are concerns about the complex interface and performance issues. On the other hand, Proxmox VE stands out for its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, performance, and management flexibility. Users commend the customer support, pricing structure, and positive ROI. Areas for improvement include interface simplicity, resource management, storage options, and support documentation.
Features: Oracle VM is valued for its strong performance, reliability, efficient resource management, seamless integration with Oracle products, and robust security. On the other hand, Proxmox VE is praised for its user-friendly interface, seamless integration with various virtualization technologies, excellent performance, and flexible management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of Oracle VM is considered straightforward and not overly complex, while Proxmox VE's initial setup cost is described as straightforward and not overly complicated. Both products offer flexible licensing options to cater to different organizational needs., Oracle VM has received positive feedback regarding its cost savings, efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and performance. Similarly, Proxmox VE has also provided favorable ROI with its positive outcomes and benefits.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM can be improved in terms of user-friendliness, navigation, performance, stability, software integration, and compatibility. On the other hand, Proxmox VE needs enhancement in user interface, resource management, storage options, and documentation and support materials.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews suggest that Oracle VM users have experienced varying timeframes for deployment and setup, which should be evaluated separately. On the other hand, Proxmox VE users have reported a significant variation in the duration required, with some spending three months on deployment and others only needing a week for both deployment and setup., Oracle VM's customer service is highly praised by users. They appreciate the promptness, efficiency, and knowledge of the support team. Proxmox VE's customer service is also highly praised, with users reporting prompt and reliable assistance from a knowledgeable support team.
The summary above is based on 42 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle VM and Proxmox VE users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"I like that it's secure, and I find its Software RAID very useful. It's way better than the Hardware RAID I was used to. I'm really impressed by their Software RAID feature."
"One of the standout features of Proxmox VE is its meticulously crafted web user interface, which is not only highly efficient but also exceptionally clear and user-friendly."
"You can easily migrate VMs between hosts."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The solution's maintenance part was very easy."
"The solution is easy to install. It can run on a lot of different types of hardware. Creating virtual machines with it is really easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is migration."
"We had issues with this solution when it comes to resources. We have officially created four to five PMs and it just continues to make more resources even though they are delivered in the main post mode."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
"There are some things that need to be done using the command-line interface, and these should be moved into the web-based interface."
"I can't speak to any improvements. It is not lacking features."
"We have only command lines for a management application to remove sites. The solution needs a proper GUI."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"Proxmox VE doesn't offer a good interface for monitoring."
"The scalability could be better."
"Proxmox VE can improve the management of virtual discs. For example, if my virtual disc is 200 GB and I want to decrease it is not easy. I have to do a lot of things to decrease the size of existing virtual machines. If the Proxmox VE team can make it easy for customers to instantly increase or decrease the virtual machine hard disc, it will be very helpful for me. However, the containers I can do it easily."
"Currently, there are several features inaccessible through the API, necessitating the use of either the WebUI or the command line interface."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 58 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "Easy to use and supports multi-monitors on multiple VMs in KVM". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Proxmox VE is most compared with VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and RHEV. See our Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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