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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Virtualization

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOracle 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

    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 VirtualizationRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle VirtualizationRed 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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    Features
    Oracle VirtualizationRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Oracle Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack Platform
    Feature
    Oracle Virtualization
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning5.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup5.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Oracle VirtualizationRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle VirtualizationRed Hat OpenStack Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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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
    • 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.
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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
    • Platform designer
    • Support material
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
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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
    • Saved us licenses fees while we upgrade to a virtual environment and redundancies servers
    • Forced me to manage another hard to manage virtual environment
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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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