Oracle Virtualization vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Oracle Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle Virtualization	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Virtualization is an enterprise-grade server virtualization solution that provides KVM virtualization and management capabilities and built-in disaster recovery features with no license cost.	N/A
VMware vSOM (discontinued)	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	VSOM from VMware was a solution that delivered vSphere server virtualization, and also added capacity management and performance monitoring features. It is discontinued as of February 2019. Users were migrated to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vRealize Operations Standard.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Oracle Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Oracle Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Oracle Virtualization Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization I didn't use any other virtualization production other than Oracle VM Server. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization Digitalocean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. Digitalocean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. Digitalocean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, Digitalocean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like … Incentivized Helpful? GR Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Chose Oracle Virtualization The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Virtualization AWS Backup, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure Blob Storage Incentivized Helpful? IT Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Chose Oracle Virtualization Both are better than Oracle VM, but Oracle application licenses on them were too high. Incentivized Helpful?	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Chose VMware vSOM (discontinued) vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Oracle Virtualization

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Virtualization 7.2 Ratings 12% below category average	VMware vSOM (discontinued) 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	5.70 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Management console	7.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	5.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.40 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	Scale Computing Platform Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	IBM PowerVM Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Oracle Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle Virtualization	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Customers considering virtualization software can consider Oracle VM Server as their single-stop solution. The data centre managers should look at this as their first option. And certainly Oracle, with its long legacy in enterprise IT, knows how to build a powerful virtualization platform. Besides its free for Oracle customers makes it pretty unique in its own field. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vsphere Operation Management is suitable for automating the process of bringing up an alternate data center in case of a disaster. It also is a great way for testing your readiness of disaster. You have the ability to bring up a server in a "bubble" for testing. This way you can show your admins how the failover process will work. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Pros	Great price. Nomenclature of backup is well defined. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Cons	Management/GUI is uncomfortable. Remote control via VNC is hard to use with graphic interface and for terminal we have SSH configuration and maintenance is not as straight forward as in VMware, Xen or even Microsoft Hyper-V. Incentivized Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Read full review	The installation of VSOM is very tedious It uses an MS SQL database It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. DigitalOcean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. DigitalOcean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, DigitalOcean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like 64 Gb and 8 CPUs) and above. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Reducing physical costs Safety Cost benefit Need to improve the platform designer Provide more support material Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review	In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial. The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially. Support for VSOM is terrific. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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