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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

    SUSE Harvester

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASuse's Harvester is a cloud-native hyperconverged infrastructure. It is used to unify infrastructure workloads with Harvester and is designed to help operators consolidate and simplify their virtual machine workloads alongside Kubernetes clusters. Harvester is presented as a next generation of open-source hyperconverged infrastructure solutions designed for modern cloud-native environments. Suse Harvester is open source and free to use.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle VDISUSE Harvester
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    Oracle VDISUSE Harvester
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Oracle VDISUSE Harvester
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.5
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle VDISUSE Harvester
    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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    SUSE
    It's great for provisioning any kind of virtual servers, but for now, we use it to provision only servers for Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters. But we are considering to provision also virtual servers for all kinds of needs on SUSE Harvester in the near future, as it's getting more and more mature with every release.
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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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    SUSE
    • Fast to deploy new virtual machines
    • It's easy to use
    • Stable and ready for production
    • Free and open source
    • Has a strong community
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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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    SUSE
    • It takes expertise to set up SUSE Harvester for production
    • You need to get used to SUSE Harvester to be as "fluent" as in VMWare ESXi
    • You need to well prepare for system upgrades
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    Usability
    Oracle
    From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.
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    SUSE
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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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    SUSE
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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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    SUSE
    We used ESXi for years and were happy with it. Then we implemented Rancher managed Kubernetes clusters with nodes provisioned on VMware ESXi. Later, when SUSE Harvester came out, we started to provision SUSE Rancher nodes on Harvester. Both VMware ESXi and SUSE Harvester are great products, and I think - we are keeping both, at least for now, when SUSE Harvester is a young project.
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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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    SUSE
    • We can provision more virtual servers
    • It's cheaper than competitor products (tbh - it's free, if you don't need support)
    • It's easy to manage when you get used to it
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