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.
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is its ease of use."
"The virtualization is good."
"The most valuable feature of Proxmox VE is the speed. Additionally, I can modify the solution if needed because it is open-source and the integration of any kind of API and monitoring is hassle-free."
"The solution's most valuable feature is backups."
"The solution allows for easy integrations."
"The solution has good high availability."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"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."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"The solution can be improved by making it more secure and scalable."
"The initial setup has a pretty steep learning curve."
"The product is still a little young so it is maturing, but new features are coming out all the time."
"The management can be better. It's not like VMware where you can get all clusters on a single dashboard. In VMware, you can literally see all the VMs running in one cluster regardless of the host."
"Lacking in enterprise features."
"It might be interesting to have the ability to integrate with other cloud solutions."
"We had some challenges with management including volume and storage management. Setting it up properly and making it work, specifically shared storage between the virtual machines, is difficult."
"The solution should include some features that can help with converting raw files into different formats. It should offer better management around raw files."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews while Proxmox VE is ranked 1st in Server Virtualization Software with 24 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while Proxmox VE is rated 8.6. 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 Proxmox VE writes "An open-source server management platform with a useful Software RAID feature, but backup and recovery could be better". 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, Hyper-V and RHEV. See our Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE report.
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