We performed a comparison between Oracle VM, RHEV, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"There aren't any bugs on the solution."
"RHEV’s cost is much less compared to VMware."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the popularity of the OS."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."
"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 are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"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 documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"There is not any proper documentation on the site to reference."
"The UI should be more interactive with additional features."
"We would like the dashboard feature of this solution to be improved, as it is not very detailed at present."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"When we do a direct comparison, then obviously VMware does better in terms of having Fault Tolerance and doing active disaster recovery and these kind of things. This is something that can be improved within Red Hat."
"The solution could use network virtualization."
"RHEV can improve by keeping pace with new features and new enhancements. They should not be halted or delayed innovation because over the past quarter the enhancements have not been as fast as they have been previously."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"The solution should be more secure."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."