Oracle VM and RHEV compete in the virtualization market. Oracle VM may have an edge in cost savings for Oracle environments, while RHEV offers strong performance and open-source benefits.
Features: Oracle VM provides powerful virtualization specifically beneficial for Oracle database licensing, with hard partitioning and Oracle templates for quick deployments. It supports various operating systems and offers secure live migrations. RHEV uses KVM technology to deliver excellent performance and security features, including Transparent Huge Pages and SELinux. It is open-source, supports live migration, and high availability, catering to a range of applications.
Room for Improvement: Oracle VM could benefit from enhancements in automatic backup, snapshot features, and third-party tool integration. It also needs more flexible network storage management. RHEV can improve its load balancing and clustering capabilities, along with better GUI and live-patching support without reboots.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle VM effectively supports private, hybrid, and Oracle cloud environments, though customer service varies in technical expertise. RHEV also supports diverse deployment environments, but user support can be inconsistent regarding complex queries and third-party integrations.
Pricing and ROI: Oracle VM is cost-efficient for Oracle hardware users, offering free deployment and support with reduced Oracle licensing costs through hard partitions. RHEV is budget-friendly as an open-source solution but requires a subscription for support. Its lower cost compared to competitors is significant, though there is room for further reduction to enhance appeal.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Oracle VM | 5.6% |
| RHEV | 2.4% |
| Other | 92.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 36 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 19 |
| Large Enterprise | 38 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 21 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 12 |
Oracle VM for x86
Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud.
Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.
Oracle VM for SPARC
Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV, is a leading open standard enterprise virtualization management solution. This solution supports virtualization of servers and desktops using the same infrastructure and a single easy-to-use interface.
Because RHEV is based on open standards, it is vendor-independent and a lot more cost effective and flexible than proprietary solutions.
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