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Oracle VM Server - An one Stop solution for virtualization world.

Rating: 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle VM Server for virtualization purposes, which helps to consolidate different services to run from single hardware. It allows users to extend their existing computer to run multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, at the same time which is the basic concept of virtualization.

Pros

  • Installation and setup of VM Server are pretty straight forward.
  • Many different guest operating systems are supported.
  • There can be up to 128 virtual machines per physical server.

Cons

  • Feature limitations and low usability scores may lead some to consider VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, or an open-source platform.
  • Oracle VM Server lacks some of the flexibility offered by other options and users sometimes report issues with certain patches.
  • User interface of Oracle portal could be improved.

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.
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Oracle Virtualization
3 years of experience

Oracle is an old but wise player, and it always surprise.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is the primary VM provider for 5 of my customers. We use it to host LAMP environments, and due to the close data center, they have in Brazil the ping is super low. This is super important as the apps we host are "almost real-time", and we need responses in the millisecond's range. Oracle delivers that even with traditional hard disks.

Pros

  • Easy config for VM.
  • Very fast pings worldwide
  • Cheaper prices than the competition
  • Free VMs to test the service and do development and proofs of concept work

Cons

  • Firewall configuration.
  • They should include the possibility of "cloning" a VM that is already up and running.
  • They should include SSD at all service levels, even the free tier.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present.
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Oracle Virtualization
3 years of experience

Great Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the virtualization platform to decentralize and have security with our applications. Our main servers are virtualized on the platform, reducing physical costs in the company and with high availability in the cloud.

Pros

  • High availability in the cloud
  • Cost benefit
  • Safety

Cons

  • Platform designer
  • Support material

Likelihood to Recommend

We use a virtualization platform, to decentralize and have security with ours. Our main servers are virtualized on the platform, good cost-benefit, reducing physical costs in the company, we have security and high availability in the cloud.
Gledson Rodrigues
Analista de Rede 2 in Professional Services at Aloo Telecom (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Oracle Virtualization
2 years of experience

Oracle VM Server Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Its currently being used throughout our organization. It easily scalable and a lot cheaper than AWS. It has significantly improved in usability since the versions have been updated.

Pros

  • Great price.
  • Nomenclature of backup is well defined.

Cons

  • User interface of Oracle portal could be improved.
  • The simplicity of deployment with the advanced tagging feature.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle VM Server is well-suited for long term deployment where you have to invest a lot. But, it is best recommended in the development phase and UAT, as there is a lot of services that are missing.
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Oracle Virtualization
2 years of experience

Not my favorite :-(

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Due to licensing issues with Oracle ERP and DB, we've separated our virtual environment and installed all Oracle production and test servers on the Oracle VM environment.

Pros

  • Allows us to use fewer licenses due to core and cpu limitiations with Oracle licenses.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

The only reason we keep the Oracle VM enviroment is for the Oracle product, and again, not for performance, only for license issues.
Itsik Tsarfati
IT Director in Information Technology at On Track Innovations, Ltd (oti) (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Oracle Virtualization
4 years of experience