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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle VDI

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can be used to deploy managed virtual desktops and access them from anywhere while keeping data and applications safe.N/A

    Red Hat OpenStack Platform

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat OpenStack Platform is a cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, organizes those resources into clouds, and manages them so users can access what they need—when they need it.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle VDIRed Hat OpenStack Platform
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    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle VDIRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Oracle VDIRed Hat OpenStack Platform
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    VMware Fusion
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle VDIRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.5
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle VDIRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Considering Oracle VDI is not supported by Oracle anymore, and will not receive any future updates, I wouldn't recommend Oracle VDI for most scenarios. Unless your organization is under some strict contractual agreement or there is a feature in Oracle VDI that isn't supported in its modern successors/competitors (haven't come across a feature like that based on my experience), I would recommend using something like VMware Horizon.
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    Red Hat
    Best suited for - any organization where you have people who already have expertise on OpenStack, Linux & IP networking. Otherwise, the maintenance & operations will be difficult. When the number of deployed VMs reaches its capacity, it becomes very difficult to manage Red Hat OpenStack because there are no in-built fault management & performance management tools available within Red Hat OpenStack. Not suited for - Organizations where people have a culture of working on automated GUI-based tools. Here VMware wins over Red Hat OpenStack. Also where you have mission-critical applications where downtime cannot be tolerated.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Providing desktop operating system virtualization is way more manageable using this Oracle suite.
    • It has a robust security infrastructure and provides great audit trails.
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    Red Hat
    • Scaling of application components (VMs).
    • Managing the networking between virtual machines.
    • Management of VNFs & the underlying infrastructure.
    • Availability & uptime of VMs because of features like VM migration & evacuation.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Frequent disconnects causing me to have to reboot my server.
    • Can be laggy at times.
    • Freezes regularly.
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    Red Hat
    • User management really needs improvement - when compared to AWS or GCP.
    • Security of the overall platform needs to be improved.
    • The whole architecture needs to be modular which is not. Ex - Upgrading any particular component (nova, neutron, cinder) should be possible without upgrading the whole Red Hat OpenStack version.
    • The creation of HEAT templates for complex applications is still a challenge & has a dependency on external tools.
    • Stack creation still requires parameters modification at controllers & compute because of the complex nova-scheduler algorithm.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.
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    Red Hat
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    Performance
    Oracle
    The easiest way to describe the performance is like this - when it is working, it works almost flawlessly. When it starts freezing, your day is going to get very interesting very quickly. As I have stated earlier, I used it for one purpose, and it did what I needed it to most of the time, but I did have issues with it.
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    Red Hat
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    VMware Horizon does everything that Oracle VDI is capable of doing and offers many more features, and unlike Oracle VDI, it is still receiving constant updates. Oracle VDI was a great solution for enterprise-level management of virtualized desktop when it was getting updates, but now that it won't be getting any, I would put it in the "outdated technology" category.
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    Red Hat
    Only because of low cost & zero licensing of Red Hat OpenStack
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Pricing Models were harsh to begin with, so we invested more money on the license than we needed to.
    • Due to all of the laggy, buggy, and crashing interfaces, our administrators spent considerable additional time working on simple operations.
    • We missed out on many advanced features that Oracle VDI's competitors were rolling out, so we couldn't benefit from them.
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    Red Hat
    • Saved CAPEX for sure (I can't quote a figure).
    • Saved Opex also - because a large support community is already available.
    • Increased complexity of system setup though.
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