We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and VMware Workstation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"It's stable."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"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 doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"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."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"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."
"Productivity in Oracle VM could still be improved, and an additional feature to make the product better is compatibility with Kubernetes and other modern technologies."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"It could have more platforms and CPUs."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 75 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE and VMware Horizon.
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