We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VMware VSphere got better user reviews. One major difference between the two solutions is that users say VMware VSphere is more user-friendly than Oracle VM.
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"The network capabilities are good."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"It's easy to use."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"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."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"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."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"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."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"Support for the product is not good enough."
"The cost can be better."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". Oracle VM is most compared with KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Oracle VM vs. VMware vSphere report.
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VMware VSphere is better than Oracle VM because on Oracle Virtual machine migration is not an easy task as in VSphere due to complications existing in Oracle VM.
Also, Oracle VM is limited in features compared to VMware.
Oracle VM is limited also in communicating with other virtualization platforms like VMware.
If you need performance then Oracle OVM is more reliable.
Otherwise, VMWare is good enough. We are using 4 virtualization platforms in the production, development and test environments.
Technically, Oracle OVM is the best for Oracle products apps/databases. VMware is for Linux guest OS.
And hyper-v is for a Windows guest OS but hyper-v lacks network security and configuration.
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 considered to be quite good. Oracle VM’s customer service and technical support are really outstanding. With this solution, you have the ability to patch with no downtime. Oracle has been around for a long time. It is complete in terms of its features, functionalities, and sophistication. It may provide good documentation and be easy to set up, but it has a terrible licensing structure. Oracle VM may help a company manage its costs, but that can come at another expense for a company - you have to work with an antiquated system.
VMware VSphere is fairly priced. Like Oracle VM, it provides near-zero downtime services. I think the way information is monitored needs to be improved. I feel like they need to have a better solution for hybrid clouds and migration to the cloud. It would also be nice to have additional integration options with different solutions at the application level (for example, Kubernetes). One of the biggest issues I have with it, is the firmware management of the underlying hardware. For firmware upgrades, for example, you have to take down your entire system. Even though it makes it easy to create virtual machines, it could be more user-friendly. In addition, the customer service and technical support seem to be average, but nothing spectacular. Overall, I would say that VMware VSphere is pretty stable and implementation is fairly easy.
Conclusion:
I’m not overly thrilled about either solution, but having had experience with both, I think VMware VSphere is better because it is easy to scale, pretty easy to use, easy to maintain and is mostly stable. And also, while Oracle VM may be more well known, I am not willing to work with an outdated product, especially since there are multiple other modern solutions available.