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."It's a very mature product."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"The product is really easy to use."
"It's stable."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"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."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"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."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do 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."
"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 product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The product is outdated."
"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."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"The support can be improved."
"For some virtual machine configurations, you have to go to the text editor and make the configuration changes, which could be improved."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, 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, VMware Fusion and VMware Horizon View.
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