Oracle VM Benefits

Rasika Sudasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director - Systems Architecture at MIT ESP

The solution can be used for many different workloads, such as Windows and Linux. Only VMware offers that level of differentiation from a product compatibility perspective.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services
  • Oracle has now made it available as a hypervisor on Oracle cloud to be deployed on Bare metal servers.
  • Ability to patch with no downtime.
  • Ability to ensure all prerequisites are satisfied without manual intervention saves time, effort, and makes the systems that we deploy for our clients more secure. 
  • 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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Felipe Domingos - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT and Senior Site Reliability Engineer and IT Ops Engineer at Padrão do Fonseca

Oracle VM helps us with the development of proposals.

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March 2024
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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

We are able to run many different solutions on a small number of hypervisors. We can shut down those solutions that are currently not of interest and can expand or contract the resources, such as memory, that are assigned to different solutions so that a developer may struggle a little, but a client demo will fly on the same instance when given 200% more memory. 

We also use the live migration facility to move VMs among servers in our farm so we can perform patching and other activities.

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RF
DBA at dbafox

We will implement a full dev/test environment with Oracle RAC and standalone databases. We will be able to fully use our ULA license agreement with Oracle and provide flexibility to our development teams.

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it_user410601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

By virtualizing our database tier on generic x86 hardware, it lowered hardware costs, improved performance, scalability and maintainability. We now have more redundancy than we had with proprietary hardware.

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AN
Senior Hyperion Systems Architect at County of Loudoun Virginia

For example, we are going to upgrade our Oracle BI product, so that needs to have more servers. What we are thinking to do is to create more VM's in the same physical server instead of buying more physical servers. It's just a matter of creating a new virtual machine, which is not a big task for the administration team. Probably within an hour they're able to build up a new server for us, so it's easy, faster and cheaper that way.

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SA
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at DHA

we have also test and development env. live cloning of oracle app /db within minutes is a great feature and very helpful for us. 

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it_user407490 - PeerSpot reviewer
UNIX Engineer Advisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

If you need to put an Oracle Database on Linux or Windows for any reason, and don't want to pay to license a whole VMware cluster, this is the next best option.

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LF
Oracle VM SME at OneNeck IT Services

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.

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JK
President with 201-500 employees

The solution helps manage a company's costs. I typically run into great resistance as most organizations already have an existing virtualization infrastructure or technology. If you're running someone else's virtualization, having a third party or a second virtualization technology tends not to be warmly received. Any place I've got VMware, I never get a large Oracle VM infrastructure. I get what's needed, however. It serves a purpose as it keeps the number of cores down. It works. It's reliable. It's stable. It does what it needs to do. I've got no technical complaints about it. 

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it_user437655 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Engineer/Architect, Oracle ACE Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I am on a team that is responsible for validating and architecting Oracle VM on Dell servers and storage. For example, we helped a customer design a private cloud system based on Oracle VM, Dell's latest 13g servers and Dell flash-based storage. The private cloud system was designed to offer Database as a Service (DBaaS).

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it_user273945 - PeerSpot reviewer
ATS - Database Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are able to build large hosts (using Oracle Virtual Cloud Appliance, for example) and wait to license CPUs for our databases until we need them. That translates into more money up front for servers and salespeople.

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EA
CTO at Datacell

It has saved us millions of dollars by generating many VM's out of a simple server added to a server  pool which is highly available.

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it_user769614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Mythics Inc

The big benefits to Oracle VM that I see in users that I work with are, first of all, performance. You don’t have what I call the "virtualization tax" like you do on other hypervisors. The CPU that you buy actually becomes more and more useful. You don’t have all that overhead. You get really good disk performance, almost comparable to bare metal when you configure it correctly. That’s an important feature for people that are using it. 

Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager.

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it_user429384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Cloning VMs helps a ton, especially when interface into EM, so users can build their own sandbox environmentnt, complete with WebLogic AND Database

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it_user100257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Consultant & DBA - Cloud Support Engineer at Amazon Web Services

I work in a consultancy, so I've deployed several OVM environments always with great results and high customer satisfaction. We've achieved the goal of being in line with the Oracle license, providing customers with better usage of their resources at better cost.

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SS
Works at hadafq8

It is cloud-based, so I can access the management consoles from anywhere within or outside my organization if I have VPN access. Its a very light pool so its quite fast in nature, the hypervisor itself is very small its around one and half gig in size so its very light, and boots very fast. It consumes no overhead. For example, if there is a physical server of say 128 gigs and 4 core CPU, all of these 4 cores and 128 gigs are available to you.

In addition, on the network card you can do WLAN tagging, you can do non WLAN tagging, you can do IP based multi-passing and you can do storage level multi-passing.

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it_user521613 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Unix System Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You save vast amounts of money.

It's also very robust and it allows you to better use your hardware.

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it_user418149 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Projects Director at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

With Oracle VM we can deliver new infrastructure much faster by deploying from templates and cloning it after customizing.

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it_user212205 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product is directly related to hardware, so it is a complete technology with hardware, operating system, and virtualization software.

The following are attributes that have improved my organization -

  • Robustness
  • Security
  • Scalability
  • High performance

We have been using IBM POWER hardware, AIX and PowerVM. We were happy with the technology, but switched to Oracle because of cost issues. The new technology is as robust, secure, scalable as IBM. The performance is much better than IBM POWER7 but we did not have a chance to compare POWER8 with new SPARC technology. IBM POWER technologies came one and a half years after Oracle and thus IBM lost a big customer.

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it_user414615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Digital Technical Lead/Architect at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've improved a lot as I use it for creating VMs for software development purposes for our team. We can have one VM to share with the team that has all development tools set up so that when a new developer joins the team, they can be ready to work just by copying the VM. So it's saved lots of time for each developer to set up their development environment. Also, it keeps the team aligned with the different tools they use.

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IW
‎Solutions Consultant

Oracle VM is a solution that grows with your business. It can easily be scaled up, and it is a great storage platform. 

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it_user247422 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO/Architect at Viscosity North America

The primary benefit is that it reduced CapEx by getting rid of old hardware and then consolidating them on a defined set of platforms. And while it's pretty well automated and if your IT department is well-versed in virtualization technology, it can reduce OpEx as well.

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it_user521604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, ERP Technical Support at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Saves time for procuring the new hardware. No more physical space sitting on the data centers.

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it_user521643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager & PeopleSoft Administrator at CMPA

As I’ve mentioned, it’s all about speed, quickness; do it pretty quick. We also have customizations. If we have a base image, we can take that base image, apply customizations, take a snapshot, and then we can copy it with a cookie-cutter approach for other environments as well.

I like the idea of, snap, and everything's available to you. You can tweak it, make another image again and you can copy it.

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it_user436065 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We can run software on a host separate from other hardware resources, which is important when we need to take a snapshot and restore it later on another VM.

But it also comes down to the fact that it's a product by Oracle, the industry leader. We know we can rely on it and that it'll be supported by an established company.

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it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It's similar to being Citrix-based with a little bit of difference on the technology side. It seems to handle some of the database mechanics better. Again, that's probably just the sampling size we've done, which may not be big enough, but it does seem to work with those a little bit better in our experience.

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GO
Sr. Linux Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It simplifies server management. In terms of server provisioning, it only takes a few clicks of a button and a bit of install automation. The server can be delivered in less than an hour, compared to physical machines.

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it_user448731 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It’s helped to decrease hardware and software license costs to use Oracle VM as most of our customers are running a lot of small applications and databases. They use Oracle VM to create small VMs to install Weblogic and the Databases on seperate servers. Also, to split the OTA database and application servers from the production databases and applications. Advantage: less hardware to buy, and most software licenses are CPU based, by using hard partitioning you can save on license costs.

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it_user181395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems administrator - Microsoft, Redhat, VMWare, Oracle VM at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We've been able to use it successfully for deployment of our online application.

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DB
Infrastructure and Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My client using the Oracle VM says that it is working well.

I can use Oracle VM to manage my VMs and databases.

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it_user446694 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Apps Database Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's improved our licensing. When we migrate physical servers to virtual ones, it reduces the amount of licenses needed. Not only that, Oracle Linux on Oracle VM are certified to run, also UEL is tuned to provide fast performance compare to other Linux.

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it_user427392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It reduced the time to deploy new machines and reduced the cost of licensing.

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it_user410328 - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have two datacenters, holding less than 15 physical servers and still running over 300 virtual ones.

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TP
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is very useful for the project management of our company.

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it_user448686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Middleware Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

As a virtualization solution, this product help us to build and deploy development environments more quickly.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle VM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle VM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.