Oracle VM Pros and Cons

The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful.

Ability to patch with no downtime.

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

It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job.

The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support.

The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database.​

Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows.

The stability of the product is fine.

It is a stable product.

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

We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve.

One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads.

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.

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.

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.

I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments.

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.

It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me.

Integrating with the internal system is not very easy.