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Oracle Virtualization

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What is Oracle Virtualization?

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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Oracle Virtualization has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 22 ratings of Oracle Virtualization's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Live virtual machine migration

    Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters

    Category average: 7.9

  • Hypervisor-level security

    Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware

    Category average: 8.4

  • Management console

    Management console for central administration of vm environment

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Virtual machine automated provisioning

    Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates

    Category average: 7.8

  • Live virtual machine backup

    Ability to backup vms without interrupting service

    Category average: 8

Reviews

What users are saying about Oracle Virtualization.
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Great Platform

Incentivized
Gledson RodriguesView profile
Analista de Rede 2 in Professional Services at Aloo Telecom (201-500 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • Reducing physical costs
  • Safety
  • Cost benefit
  • Need to improve the platform designer
  • Provide more support material

Alternatives Considered

VMware Workstation Player (formerly VMware Player), VMware Workstation Pro, VMware vCenter Server and Hyper-V

Other Software Used

Infinera XTM & XTC, of the DTN-X Family, SecureCRT

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

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • for VMs is around 4 times the ROI.
  • for development the ROI is extremely good, as the free tier is more than enough.
  • for high performance DB is around 3 or 4 times cheaper than on premises.

Alternatives Considered

DigitalOcean Droplets

Other Software Used

Azure App Service, DigitalOcean Droplets, DigitalOcean Databases

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

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Customers can use a single bare metal server and use Oracle VM server to reduce cost on infra.
  • It has great price than other OEM to offer.
  • Migrating customers' workloads from AWS/Azure to Oracle gave them a huge benefit in cost reduction.

Other Software Used

Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Database, Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle VM Server Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction.
  • We've experienced a lot of outages.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Backup, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure Blob Storage

Other Software Used

Azure App Service, Azure CDN, CloudFlare, Azure Virtual Network

Not my favorite :-(

Incentivized
Itsik TsarfatiView profile
IT Director in Information Technology at On Track Innovations, Ltd (oti) (51-200 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Saved us licenses fees while we upgrade to a virtual environment and redundancies servers
  • Forced me to manage another hard to manage virtual environment

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo), Netwrix Auditor

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