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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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  • No setup fee

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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

7.2
Avg 8.3
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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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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.
Server Virtualization (3)
33.333333333333336%
3.3
Virtual machine automated provisioning
20%
2.0
Management console
70%
7.0
Live virtual machine backup
10%
1.0
  • for VMs is around 4 times the ROI.
  • for development the ROI is extremely good, as the free tier is more than enough.
  • for high performance DB is around 3 or 4 times cheaper than on premises.
DigitalOcean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. DigitalOcean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. DigitalOcean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, DigitalOcean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like 64 Gb and 8 CPUs) and above.
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.

Server Virtualization (5)
56%
5.6
Virtual machine automated provisioning
70%
7.0
Management console
80%
8.0
Live virtual machine backup
60%
6.0
Live virtual machine migration
70%
7.0
Hypervisor-level security
N/A
N/A
  • Extremely satisfied with the product, it's still developing everyday and we are happy with its progress so far.
  • It does its job in a very easy to use and reliable fashion.
  • Looking forward to the new updates and what help it can bring to our current issues.
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.
Server Virtualization (4)
35%
3.5
Virtual machine automated provisioning
50%
5.0
Management console
20%
2.0
Live virtual machine migration
20%
2.0
Hypervisor-level security
50%
5.0
  • Saved us licenses fees while we upgrade to a virtual environment and redundancies servers
  • Forced me to manage another hard to manage virtual environment
Both are better than Oracle VM, but Oracle application licenses on them were too high.
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