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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 6, 2024

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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  • "Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool."
  • "The cost of scalability. You pay for what you use. It's free to download, free to install, and the support side has been very helpful."
  • "The price of this product is high."
  • "If you buy an Oracle server, this solution is free. You have to only pay for support."
  • "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."
  • "Oracle VM is free if you are running it on Oracle infrastructure hardware, otherwise, it is subscription-based."
  • "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."
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  • "An excellent choice for budget sensitive operations.​"
  • "The cost is excellent."
  • "Proxmox is free software, but if you prefer the support and a more rested repository then you can pay for it."
  • "Zero - this is a free solution."
  • "The only thing you pay for is support and it is between $2,500 and $3,000 a year. It depends on the support plan you choose. Support is optional."
  • "I am not aware of the licensing cost, but there is a cost for support."
  • "It's an open-source solution that can be used free of cost."
  • "Because I'm using Proxmox VE for personal use and it's an AGPL license project, I can use it at home for free."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I would prefer if KVM was easier to scale and not so limited. Overall the product has been helpful. It is easy to use, and was quite straight-forward to set up. Since I have been using KVM, I have not… more »
    Top Answer:Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is… more »
    Top Answer:I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:For me the biggest impact is the cost of licensing in the case of VMware despite its overall intuitiveness and ease of handling and management. However, KVM-based Open Source solutions are becoming… more »
    Top Answer:One of the best things about Proxmox VE is that it is open-source and very inexpensive. You get all of the same features as with the more well-known products. Proxmox VE is very easy to deploy - it… more »
    Top Answer:I use Proxmox VE and have been very happy with it. In my opinion, it is a complete and stable solution with excellent tools for managing servers. It has a lot of different features, and I also love… more »
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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.

    Proxmox VE is a complete virtualization management solution for servers. It is a powerful open-source platform and supports two virtualization technologies - KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for virtual machines and LXC for containers. Proxmox VE has a central user interface that allows you to manage not only VMs and containers, but also storage resources, network configuration, and high availability for clusters. It is enterprise-ready and is valued for its scalability and maximum flexibility, enabling you to virtualize very demanding workloads. Proxmox VE makes it possible for you to easily install, manage, and monitor hyper-converged (HCI) data centers.

    Proxmox VE Key Features

    The Proxmox VE platform has many powerful features, including:

    pen-source software, high-available clusters, command line, fencing, a web-based management interface, flexible storage options, REST API, live/online migration, storage replication stack, software defined storage, virtualized networking, backup and restore, two-factor authentication, role-based administration, and VM templates and clones.

    Proxmox VE Benefits

    Some of the biggest benefits of Proxmox VE are:

    • Central management: To manage all tasks of your virtual data center, you can use the central, web-based management interface.

    • Unique multi-master design: Proxmox VE allows you to carry out maintenance tasks cluster wide, from any node.

    • Minimize downtime: With the integrated live/online migration feature, you can move running virtual machines from one Proxmox VE cluster node to another, without any downtime or noticeable effect from the end-user side.

    • Granular access: Using Proxmox VE’s role-based permission management system helps you define granular access to all objects.

    • Multiple authentication sources: Proxmox VE supports multiple authentication sources, including Linux PAM, an integrated Proxmox VE authentication server, LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, and OpenID Connect.

    • Several storage options: The Proxmox VE storage model is very flexible and the web interface allows you to add multiple storage types (LVM Group, iSCSI target, NFS Share, SMB/CIFS, Ceph RBD, Direct to iSCSI LUN, GlusterFS, CephFS).

    • Collaboration with Ceph: Proxmox VE fully integrates Ceph, giving you the ability to run and manage Ceph storage directly from any of your cluster nodes.

    • Scheduled backups: With Proxmox VE, backups can be scheduled so that they automatically run on specific days and times, for selectable nodes and guest systems.

    • IT infrastructure protection: Proxmox VE has a built-in firewall that works to protect your IT infrastructure. The firewall is completely customizable, allowing complex configurations via the GUI or CLI.

    Reviews From Real Users

    Here is some feedback from some of our users who are currently using the solution:

    A PeerSpot user who is a director at a tech services company says, “The most valuable features of Proxmox VE are the ease of containerization. Overall the solution is generic, feature-rich, and has compatibility.”

    Another PeerSpot user who is a head of IT operations at a tech services company mentions that "In addition to the virtualization, the firewall and the routing functions that it provides are valuable."

    Deepen D., director and CTO at TechnoInfotech, expresses that "The feature that I have found most valuable is that its storage container, LVM, and everything else work out of the box."


    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 Ro de la Plata S.A., University of Massachusetts, Versace,
    Municipality of Trento, SwitchMIA, inDenova, Valmeita City Council, Alpha IT AS, Grupo Inversor Veracruzano S.A.P.I. de C.V. (GRIVER), Laut und Schoen, IT-Services - Hamburg e.K., KMI Learning, Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd., Serwise AG
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
    Retailer8%
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    Educational Organization45%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Government5%
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    Government13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer13%
    University8%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Government8%
    Educational Organization7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise52%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Small Business68%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise17%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle VM vs. Proxmox VE and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    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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