Oracle VM vs. VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Oracle VM

23 Reviews and Ratings

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle VM	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for the entire computing environment.	N/A
VMware vSOM (discontinued)	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	VSOM from VMware was a solution that delivered vSphere server virtualization, and also added capacity management and performance monitoring features. It is discontinued as of February 2019. Users were migrated to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vRealize Operations Standard.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle VM

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Oracle VM	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Oracle VM	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Top Pros	Pro Operating systems Pro Virtual machines Pro Easy use	Pro Virtual environment Pro Virtual machines Pro Simple process
Top Cons	Minus Tagging feature Minus Free tier Minus Not intuitive	Minus Ms sql Minus Sql database Minus Data protection

Features

Oracle VM

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle VM 7.2 6 Ratings 15% below category average	VMware vSOM (discontinued) 10.0 1 Ratings 18% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	5.76 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Management console	7.56 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	5.65 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.84 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.44 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle VM	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.3 out of 10	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	Oracle VM VirtualBox Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Oracle VM	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (6 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle VM	VMware vSOM (discontinued)
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products Vsphere Operation Management is suitable for automating the process of bringing up an alternate data center in case of a disaster. It also is a great way for testing your readiness of disaster. You have the ability to bring up a server in a "bubble" for testing. This way you can show your admins how the failover process will work. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Cons	Oracle Not as flexible as VMware. Could have slightly better templates for provisioning database nodes. In terms of performance it lags a bit behind Red Hat's KVM solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products The installation of VSOM is very tedious It uses an MS SQL database It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Oracle The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit. Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review	Discontinued Products vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Oracle Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction. We've experienced a lot of outages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial. The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially. Support for VSOM is terrific. Incentivized Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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