Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) vs. Oracle Virtualization

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
KVM	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.	N/A
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

Pricing

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
KVM	Oracle Virtualization
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization

Features

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) 9.2 6 Ratings 14% above category average	Oracle Virtualization 7.2 5 Ratings 11% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	7.05 Ratings	5.75 Ratings
Management console	10.04 Ratings	7.55 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	10.04 Ratings	5.54 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	10.05 Ratings	8.83 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.04 Ratings	8.44 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (6 ratings)	7.8 (5 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	Red Hat KVM is the best solution in the case you need to test and turn up any virtual environment with limited vCPU/RAM resources. The obvious area of its use is a network environment when we want to avoid being tied to one type of hardware/vendor and being able to swap from one instance to another with no downtimes. The use of a vSwitch (that supports VLAN tagging) is a significant bonus for network engineers that some other hypervisors do not provide. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Red Hat KVM is really good at providing fast and reliable virtualization for Linux guests Since KVM is a kernel module, every VM is a Linux process which can be managed by Linux system tools KVM integrates very well with the management framework libvirt, which is why KVM can be integrated in automation tools as well Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	Oracle 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Red Hat KVM itself doesn't ship with a management interface KVM itself is a bit complicated to handle KVM needs Qemu to virtualize Windows guests Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	Oracle Platform designer Support material Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review
Usability	Red Hat It does the job and stays out of the way. The specifics of usability relies on the implementation, but with things like Icarus and libvirt, things are standardizing nicely. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Red Hat It is a very reliable solution that can be used for x86 architecture virtualization with low overhead. It is a free and open source software. Easy to use withOpenStack. Incentivized Stenio Pereira Filho IT Group manager Read full review	Oracle Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Red Hat Fast provisioning of new servers. Huge drop of the cost of servers compared to bare metal. Easy upgrades of resources, sometimes now even requiring a server restart. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle Saved us licenses fees while we upgrade to a virtual environment and redundancies servers Forced me to manage another hard to manage virtual environment Incentivized Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Read full review
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