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Oracle VM

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What is Oracle VM?

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…

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Popular Features

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  • Management console (6)
    7.5
    75%
  • Virtual machine automated provisioning (6)
    5.7
    57%
  • Live virtual machine backup (5)
    5.6
    56%
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What is Oracle VM?

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…

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What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.

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Product Demos

OpenStack/LDoms Product Annoucement & Demo

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Demo Oracle VM Server 3.2

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Oracle VM Manager 3.2.1 show hot re-assign of CPUs (cool demo)

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Oracle VM CPU pinning with the OVM Utilities Guide for Release 3

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Oracle VM 3.2.1 CPU pinning

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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

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Product Details

What is Oracle VM?

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

VMware ESXi and Hyper-V are common alternatives for Oracle VM.

Reviewers rate Live virtual machine migration highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Oracle VM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle VM Server for virtualization purposes, which helps to consolidate different services to run from single hardware. It allows users to extend their existing computer to run multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, at the same time which is the basic concept of virtualization.
  • 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.
  • Feature limitations and low usability scores may lead some to consider VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, or an open-source platform.
  • Oracle VM Server lacks some of the flexibility offered by other options and users sometimes report issues with certain patches.
  • User interface of Oracle portal could be improved.
Customers considering virtualization software can consider Oracle VM Server as their single-stop solution. The data centre managers should look at this as their first option. And certainly Oracle, with its long legacy in enterprise IT, knows how to build a powerful virtualization platform. Besides its free for Oracle customers makes it pretty unique in its own field.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is the primary VM provider for 5 of my customers. We use it to host LAMP environments, and due to the close data center, they have in Brazil the ping is super low. This is super important as the apps we host are "almost real-time", and we need responses in the millisecond's range. Oracle delivers that even with traditional hard disks.
  • Easy config for VM.
  • Very fast pings worldwide
  • Cheaper prices than the competition
  • Free VMs to test the service and do development and proofs of concept work
  • Firewall configuration.
  • They should include the possibility of "cloning" a VM that is already up and running.
  • They should include SSD at all service levels, even the free tier.
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.
February 18, 2022

Great Platform

Gledson Rodrigues | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the virtualization platform to decentralize and have security with our applications. Our main servers are virtualized on the platform, reducing physical costs in the company and with high availability in the cloud.
  • High availability in the cloud
  • Cost benefit
  • Safety
  • Platform designer
  • Support material
We use a virtualization platform, to decentralize and have security with ours. Our main servers are virtualized on the platform, good cost-benefit, reducing physical costs in the company, we have security and high availability in the cloud.
December 12, 2019

Oracle VM Server Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Its currently being used throughout our organization. It easily scalable and a lot cheaper than AWS. It has significantly improved in usability since the versions have been updated.
  • Great price.
  • Nomenclature of backup is well defined.
  • User interface of Oracle portal could be improved.
  • The simplicity of deployment with the advanced tagging feature.
Oracle VM Server is well-suited for long term deployment where you have to invest a lot. But, it is best recommended in the development phase and UAT, as there is a lot of services that are missing.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle VM Server is being used by a few departments only. It is a reliable server virtualization application - hasn't caused any major issues in the past year I believe. Oracle Support has been very prompt with their responses however we have seen problems with applying certain patches with minimal help from Oracle on the same.
  • Supports x86 and Solaris servers.
  • Cloning VM's is a very important feature.
  • Another extremely useful feature for us was the Live Storage Migration.
  • By the way, Oracle VM is free!
  • 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.
It's simple, clean and easy to deploy. The updates are only making the product much better. Kudos to Oracle Dev team! It has great flexibility but could use some work in the snapshot capabilities (but hey, remember - it's free). The management console is intuitive and does a good job at managing resources, keeping an eye on your templates and so on.

April 19, 2016

Not my favorite :-(

Itsik Tsarfati | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Due to licensing issues with Oracle ERP and DB, we've separated our virtual environment and installed all Oracle production and test servers on the Oracle VM environment.
  • Allows us to use fewer licenses due to core and cpu limitiations with Oracle licenses.
  • Management/GUI is uncomfortable.
  • Remote control via VNC is hard to use with graphic interface and for terminal we have SSH configuration and maintenance is not as straight forward as in VMware, Xen or even Microsoft Hyper-V.
The only reason we keep the Oracle VM enviroment is for the Oracle product, and again, not for performance, only for license issues.
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