Oracle VM Room for Improvement
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Ngole Ngole
Oracle Techno Sales consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility.
In other virtualization like VMware, you can do the snapshot right at the level of VMware itself. You'll get customers complaining that, "We can't take a snapshot just like we do on our normal VMware solution."
I always advise my customers to go with ZFS Storage. If you maybe had a snapshot on the Oracle VM itself, it would make sense.
View full review »The solution is an outdated Xen-based application. They only perform maintenance support for it. The new version is Oracle Linux Virtualization, which is a re-skinned version of the over stack, basically the same as the one that Red Hat sells. They could harmonize management between their products better.
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Syed Abid Hussain
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at DHA
All features are ok. just need to add performance monitoring tools for all running VMs & reporting facility as well.
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Mauritz Kloppers
Enterprise Architect at Assore
The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey.
This tool isn't for every company. It's very complex.
View full review »Oracle VM is an obsolete product in that no new features are coming for it. The new version is called Oracle KVM. The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface. When comparing the user console with vCenter, the interface used to control VMware environments, Oracle VM's user interface is not that rich in terms of user experience. If Oracle could improve that, it would be good.
Besides that, we don't know if the solution comes with a roadmap because it comes free of charge with Oracle x86. We can't expect something similar to vCenter in KVM, but at least if you can improve what users can experience, then it would be good.
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Dimitar Kavrakov
CEO at iSolute Ltd
The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement. If you restart the machine to implement a feature through auto-start, you should get a tray icon or a service without the need for any additional tuning or scripts.
Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening. Many websites offer various products with the same name, which can be confusing.
View full review »If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place. So I have to restart the server, and then it starts working again. It has happened a few times, and it wasn't very comfortable.
Apart from that, it's an okay solution for deploying VMs or switching them to another server if you have availability installed, and so on.
I'm not familiar with the latest version. There might be some new functionalities that we would like to have in our current solution. For example, having better backup options for virtual machines, such as online backup, would be cool to have.
This is something that I would like to see in our virtualization solution.
View full review »The main program to consider, from an improvement perspective for Oracle VM, is how to extract the existing VM or migrate it to Oracle KVM.
View full review »There's room for improvement in terms of productivity in Oracle VM, because I find Nutanix has better productivity.
Oracle VM can have future improvements through the addition of newer features.
I'm also looking forward to a newer product version for Oracle VM, including making it compatible with Kubernetes and other modern technologies.
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Babatunde Ojumu
Director- Technical Services at Soft Alliance
An expanded data transfer option is one of the features I would like to have added. It should allow virtual machines in one site, and replicate them to a different side.
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Auditor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
I know they moved from OVM, and I think right now, they are moving into KVM or something else. I don't have much to say about the improvement if they are already shifted to the KVM.
The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity.
View full review »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.
View full review »The integration aspect may benefit from some enhancement. Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial.
View full review »Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another. If you have two Oracle KVM hypervisors without central storage and want to replicate a clone from one hypervisor to another, there is no technology to do that.
Oracle VM needs to change or refine its partition system. Oracle OVM takes five minutes to one hour to clone a system.
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Bogdan Dumitrache
Database Specialist at SIVECO Romania SA
Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature.
View full review »The solution's management, hardware, and backup recovery features could be better.
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Sumitra Subedi
Computer Engineer at NITC: IT Agency of Government of Nepal
The tool's price and stability could be better.
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