Oracle VM Scalability
I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We have about two or three customers on Oracle KVM.
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Abdelkrim Ferroudj
IT Technology Manager at Americana Group
The solution is scalable.
We have 10-50 VMs with 1000-5000 users using this solution.
View full review »We did not encounter scalability issues. However, we are constrained by our hardware since this is a development setup.
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Oracle VM
April 2024
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I rate the solution’s scalability a six out of ten.
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Dimitar Kavrakov
CEO at iSolute Ltd
Around three people use the solution, and our company doesn't plan to increase the solution's usage.
I have issues with its scalability since one cannot have many VMs. So, it reaches limits at an early rate. Hence, it's very difficult to scale. Also, you have a file system that is not supported. The file system is based on OCFS2, which is an open-source file system that is not very reliable. It is not a problem with Oracle KVM or XFS since you have many file systems, but this is not the case with Oracle VM.
View full review »The cloud appliance is easy to scale because it's built to scale. You just add a new machine into them and then it will automatically boot and install. The other solutions are easy to scale as long as they are set up correctly from the beginning. They require a shared file system, either NFS, the cluster file system, glossary, or something similar to that. That will allow you to scale your storage, and then scale the compute nodes. Basically, install Oracle Linux and a node then point the management to it and say, "This is your new compute node for you."
View full review »There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »Scalability abilities are impressive, I would rate it nine out of ten.
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RaviKasibhatla
Chief Executive Officer CEO at IT CROWD S.A.S
It's a highly scalable product. They have deployed a server form of 1,000 servers with Oracle VM.
It's totally scalable. For example, today you have some generation like Intel generation processor, and after three, four, five years, you want to add new servers to the same Oracle VM environment. However, you now have the next generation, like maybe Intel servers, Intel processors, Generation 10, whatever it is. You can still mix different Intel generation processors in the same Oracle VM consideration. From that point of view, it is totally scalable. It allows different CPU generations.
At this time, we have more than 100 to 200 clients that have installed Oracle VM. The solution likely has millions of clients.
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Mauritz Kloppers
Enterprise Architect at Assore
The scalability is very good. You can adjust it up and down. The scalability I would rate at a ten out of ten. It's great.
We have 250 users on the solution right now. Their job titles vary from senior to middle management. It's pretty static. We do not have plans to increase usage.
View full review »I did have an issue with the guests running out of swap space and located a procedure to expand swap space without having to disrupt the LUN numbering convention.
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Adnan Nasir
Senior Hyperion Systems Architect at County of Loudoun Virginia
It's been able to scale for our needs.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. The new version is more scalable than the old one.
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reviewer2142180
Auditor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Right now, no one in my company uses the solution.
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Rozaino Sarbini
Senior Manager at NCS Group
Scalability has not been a problem. One of our older clients has about 1,000 end-users and one that we are working on now is expected to have about 50,000.
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Bogdan Dumitrache
Database Specialist at SIVECO Romania SA
I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten.
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Babatunde Ojumu
Director- Technical Services at Soft Alliance
I've scaled the product recently. We had success with about eight nodes and extended it to ten. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
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Syed Abid Hussain
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at DHA
This solution is easy to scale. We can add the storage and increase VM capacity without a problem. this product is scalable. storage, network, NFS, servers can be easily added or migrated.
Oracle VM is a scalable product.
View full review »I rate Oracle VM a seven out of ten for scalability. Around 500 users were using Oracle VM in my previous organization.
View full review »We have ten solution users in our organization. They include system administrators.
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Sumitra Subedi
Computer Engineer at NITC: IT Agency of Government of Nepal
We have around 150 users for the solution.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We have 10 users in our organization. It's a new product.
We are still in the testing phase. We are looking forward to observing its behavior. If it behaves well and there are no major incidents that give us or the support team issues, we will continue to plan ahead and implement it.
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reviewer996648
Founder and President at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees
The scalable of Oracle VM is good if you have a good link.
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reviewer1029540
Manager, IT at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Scalability is good.
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reviewer1395378
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The scalability of the solution is pretty good. If an organization needs to expand it, they can do so.
We don't plan to increase our usage, however. We plan to move off it in the near future.
View full review »I only deployed it to a small, three-node Oracle X5-2 cluster.
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Luis Fregoso
Oracle VM SME at OneNeck IT Services
No issues at all. Adding hypervisors or server pools, even migrating to other instances across different disaster recovery sites, it's been pretty turnkey.
View full review »9/10 - It offers high performance and scalability.
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Ngole Ngole
Oracle Techno Sales consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is scalable because we are using production and VR 35 kilometers apart. Scalability is no issue.
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reviewer1184424
President with 201-500 employees
I didn't find scalability to be an issue, however, the difficulty is with any hardware refreshes done today. You're going to get more cores due to the fact that that's all Intel can do. Intel can't crank the clock speed much past five gigahertz, not without heroic amounts of cooling. It's just the laws of physics. All Intel can do, all AMD can do, is give you more cores.
The problem is that Oracle's licensing model charges by the core. There's a formula to it and it depends on which features, etc., however, basically it's by the core that dictates the cost. At the end of the day, you're going to pay for the number of cores you're using.
Therefore, you've got to put it on a new machine without Oracle's virtualization technology to help you manage the licensing. You go from a basic 5,100 series Intel chip with four cores. to a new gold chip, or whatever it is, and it's got 18 cores. All of a sudden you owe Oracle a lot more money, as there are a lot more cores.
That's not the kind of surprise that most companies appreciate. Your costs went up simply due to a newer chip. That's a hard sell. By using Oracle's virtualization technology, you can manage those licenses, allocate virtual CPUs to the level that you have an existing license, and control your costs while essentially getting a little bit more oomph. At least you're on a new, more reliable hardware platform. That's where virtualization really comes in.
It helps manage the licensing. Oracle should just fully embrace VMware as a viable licensable technology. It would make life a whole lot easier for a lot of companies, however, they're not going to. They had the same stance when Sun Microsystems had its own virtualization technology. In that case, Oracle acquired it, and all of a sudden Sun's virtualization technology was acceptable. It's a marketing game, to be perfectly frank, and we all know that. That said, Oracle gets to set the rules.
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reviewer1425744
IT Team Lead Planning & Assets at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's a scalable solution. Across the whole company, we have 2,500 users.
View full review »The product is easily to deploy and very well scalable.
View full review »We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »Scalability has not been an issues.
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Eric Addo
CTO at Datacell
It is highly scalable. It can be scaled to any amount that you want. The RAM, CPU, and storage can be easily scaled.
It is suitable for big and small organizations. We have deployed it for financial institutions and banks with lots of users and VMs. They use it for all kinds of things.
View full review »Scaling in Oracle VM is an interesting prospect because you have two ways you can scale it. You can, first of all, use really, really big hosts with large numbers of CPUs. Four-socket, eight-socket CPUs are fully supported with it. But you could also scale it with a large number of servers in the environment, so you can scale horizontally and vertically. I have not had any issues with the scalability of Oracle VM. It scales really well.
Scalability of the solution, we use it all in our labs and we have some small production use. I also have clients that are using it, not had an issue with scaling systems very large. Getting into server individual pods or pools or servers, 16 nodes, no problem. Getting into farms running thousands of VMs, no problem at all.
View full review »We have had no issues scaling it to our needs.
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Sandeep Shenoy
Works at hadafq8
Again, it is extremely scalable. Notes can be added on the fly, but it needs to do better form work before it is a true virtualization software.
View full review »The whole point of Oracle VM is that it allows me to access modern-day computers with large number of cores and large amounts of memory. Most users are not going to run into something that it cannot handle.
View full review »The solution is very easy to scale.
View full review »The issues I found were related to cluster disk shared on our SAN. It was about detailed storage configurations.
View full review »We had no issues with scaling it for our needs.
View full review »We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.
View full review »The solution is not very scalable. We are using Oracle CC, and it's not very flexible. It can't merge or communicate with other systems, which limits things quite a bit.
In our company, more than 100 people are currently using the solution.
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Isaac Nelson Walulya
Solutions Consultant
This solution supports up to 254 virtual machine servers. So, this is a huge capability for scalability. Any company can start with whatever it has, and grow as its budget grows.
View full review »It scales well. I think a primary use case of this would be in the private cloud appliance, a PCA, which is where it really gets leveraged.
For real hardware, scalability is challenging. But with virtual, you can scale without affecting the software applications, you can still reconfigure the hardware. Whenever we ask them to increase the RAM or other things, they can do it, and never come back and say well, it's VM's role. But every two years, we need to update the VM build; that we know. After four years, our VMs get old, so we need to replace them.
View full review »We have not had to scale it that much.
View full review »The scalability has been there for us as well. We've been able to scale as needed.
View full review »Really, I don't have experience with a lot of installations because we have 20 or 25 virtual machines employed in a cluster.
View full review »We have been able to scale using it just fine.
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SrLinuxS2a6c
Sr. Linux Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of the visualization perspective, scaling was not an issue. You can scale without affecting the applications. You can even reconfigure WM hardware specs without affecting the system.
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Awais Kazi
Sr System Support Eng at Techaccess Pakistan
Scalability is good, we're able to deploy the solution to big environments.
View full review »We've had no issues scaling it to our needs.
View full review »It's been able to scale for our needs.
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reviewer613782
Manager-Data Center at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is a huge gap that Oracle VM needs to tighten in order to be more scalable, as well as more competitive with other VM products currently on the market.
View full review »We had no issues scaling it for our needs.
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reviewer1259991
Infrastructure and Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This is a scalable solution. I can use many nodes inside of a cluster. Also, I can create one group and put several servers in it.
View full review »It's scaled for our needs.
View full review »We've had no issues scaling it.
View full review »We have had no issues scaling it as needed.
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Agustin Caveda Mas
Senior Presales Engineer of DataCenter and Digital Transformation at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The scalability is good. For us, we do not have a need for a lot of servers, so it suits our needs. We have about 30 users of this solution.
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Reviewer308
Senior Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Integrating with the internal system is not very easy.
View full review »It's been able to scale for our needs.
View full review »So far, we've been able to scale it. We haven't had any issues with scalability.
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Oracle VM
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle VM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.