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OpenNebula vs Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

OpenNebula
Ranking in Cloud Management
24th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Enterprise Manager C...
Ranking in Cloud Management
34th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenNebula is 1.5%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is 1.2%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenNebula1.5%
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control1.2%
Other97.3%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

FOURES Jean-Philippe - PeerSpot reviewer
Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support
The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.
SC
technical Manager at DBA Expert Consulting
Extensive tool features support database monitoring, but support and pricing present challenges
I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especially if you know how to configure it properly, as you can use it to monitor other databases such as PostgreSQL and SQL Server in addition to Oracle.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"OpenNebula freed my customer from doing the maintenance operations of the servers because now that can be done by his clients."
"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."
"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."
"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."
"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."
"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."
"I'll definitely recommend OpenNebula because it's an open-source solution that's effortless to set up, and the total cost of ownership is low."
"It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"If you're using Oracle products, you should definitely use Oracle Enterprise Manager because it is central to product management."
"The solution provides very useful insights for application and database performance tuning, and we were able to do away with guess work in determining where the bottlenecks were in application performance."
"The tool's most valuable feature is notifications. It is also flexible in defining metrics where you can specify any metric type. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps monitor the resources you manage so that you do not overpay."
"The capability to manage incidents, monitor agent statuses, and address performance issues is highly valuable."
"EM Cloud Control gives me a good way to look at everything in one snapshot and to stay on top of daily monitoring."
"Using Enterprise Manager, I was able to create user profiles for all the instances that have the same profile. Secondly, it's easier to manage performance, to automate the AWR reports to run every half an hour, or hour. Then, if you have a performance issue you just open the report and you can see what was running the last one hour, the SQL statements, or what was causing the performance issues."
"It’s impressive how much better Oracle 13c is, how much improved it is over Oracle Grid Control 10."
 

Cons

"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."
"They should add more features like object storage."
"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."
"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."
"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."
"The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement."
"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."
"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."
"Because this solution provides insight into all of the areas within the IT stack, it would benefit from enhancements in security."
"When it comes through India, it's just terrible."
"As the number of databases increased, the tool got a bit slower. Its response time increased with larger number of databases."
"The response time of the solution's technical support team is too long and should be improved."
"When registering a host, only if your host is running Linux will you get all the information which is available on EM. It would be nice if in future releases to include IBM AIX (primarily)​ and Microsoft Windows (secondly)​."
"The product lacks in the area of database, making it an area where improvements are required."
"One area where Oracle EMCC could improve is file import flexibility."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control needs to improve its GUI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."
"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."
"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."
"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."
"OpenNebula gives good value for money."
"The solution is open source so is free."
"it's neither expensive nor cheap."
"We are using the free version. We are not using any licensed packages of Enterprise Manager, so I’m not quite sure how much each package is. As I understand it, there are different plug-ins that you need to buy for Enterprise Manager."
"The solution's pricing is fine."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a pretty expensive solution but worth the money."
"The tool's pricing is competitive."
"I personally feel that the tool can be considered to be a little bit on the expensive side."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is a little expensive."
"Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
15%
Marketing Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
The price of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is very high, especially when considering the additional cost for features such as the tuning pack, which makes it more expensive compared to mo...
What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
I don't fully understand what improvements could be made in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. To make it better, more features could be added, but it is already a very complete tool, especia...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control?
The main use cases for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control include adding a new machine, making tuning adjustments, and monitoring databases.
 

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Sample Customers

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago, Nokia, Encore Tech, Beeks.
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