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Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle VM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox and other solutions. Updated: January 2019. 317,758 professionals have used our research since 2012. |
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The stability of the product is fine. The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support. It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job. It is a stable product. We previously used VMware but then moved to Oracle VM. I find that it works better than VMware in some cases. It is very useful for the project management of our company. The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful. Ability to patch with no downtime. | The cloning is a very useful tool. This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments. This is a highly scalable solution. The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh. The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh. VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward. The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored. |
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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. This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates. The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement. It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me. The web interface could be faster. Integrating with the internal system is not very easy. We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve. 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 communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow. I think that this solution should be more user-friendly. This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage. We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox. We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox. It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be. One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that. |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
The cost of this solution is cheap. It is one of the reasons we chose Oracle VM. It is truly "pocket- friendly." Pricing and licensing is one of the main decision making reasons for going to Oracle VM because it was cost effective. If you buy an Oracle server, this solution is free. You have to only pay for support. I do not have experience with the pricing and licensing of the product. The price of this product is high. Licensing costs are less for Oracle Linux and for clients moving to the Oracle Cloud, as it is included in the price of the subscription. I recommend this for any customer wanting to reduce their licensing costs for packaged applications. If you choose Oracle hardware, then this virtualization software is included along with support. | Pricing does not apply for us, we do not have to pay for the service. It is a very cost-effective solution. |
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Overview | |
Oracle VM for x86 Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud. Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs. Oracle VM for SPARC Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs. | Oracle VM Virtualbox is a cross-platform virtualizer for x86 servers and desktops, and is also for embedded usage. With this product, you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine, all at the same time, making it a powerful tool to test, develop, demonstrate and deploy solutions. Oracle VM Virtualbox is a professional solution that is also freely available as Open Source Software. It is for both enterprise and home use. This x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software is high performing and rich in features. Oracle VM Virtualbox currently runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris and Macintosh. It also supports many guest operating systems, such as Windows, DOX/Windows 3. Linux, OS/2, OpenBSD, Solaris and OpenSolaris. For more information on Oracle VM VirtualBox, visit Oracle.com |
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Sample Customers | |
Ambulance Victoria, Australian Finance Group (AFG), Avnet Technology Solutions, CERN, cloudKleyer, Danish Tax Authority (SKAT), Data Intensity, Dubai World, Engineers Australia, Enkitec, Groupe FLO, Guerra S.A. Implemento, s Rodovišrios, Interactive One, IT Convergence, Jesta Digital, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, KT, Kyoto Prefecture, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / National Ignition Facility, Multinet Pakistan, National Australia Bank (NAB), Navis LLC, Overhead Door, Overstock.com, Paragon Data, Parks Victoria, Pella, Sunway Shared Services, St. Louis Metro, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., University of Massachusetts, Versace, | Airbus, Colorado State University, SCS Africa, Wolf Medical Systems. |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm19% Consumer Goods10% Comms Service Provider10% Local Government10% Government17% Energy/Utilities Company13% Comms Service Provider11% Financial Services Firm11% | Financial Services Firm15% Software R&D Company15% Aerospace/Defense Firm15% University8% |
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Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise26% Large Enterprise54% Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise70% | Small Business34% Midsize Enterprise38% Large Enterprise28% |
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