Oracle VM vs RHEV comparison

Oracle and Red Hat are both solutions in the Server Virtualization Software category. Oracle is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while Red Hat is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.6. Oracle holds a 7.2% mindshare in SVS, compared to Red Hat’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 78% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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84% willing to recommend

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78% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

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.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle VM

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

RHEV

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of Oracle VM is 7.2%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RHEV is 3.6%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee

Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

Low cost robust VM soln with ability to patch with no downtime and free Live migration

The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful.The ability to pin cores to reduce licensing costs for our clients runnning core based oracel producs is also invaluable.One important factor to note is that to use live migration its important to create specifc pools devoted to certain products for exampel a pool for weblogic and a separate server pool for database. live migration is not permitted when using cpu pinnning to reduce license costs.

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Sujeet-Kumar

Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure at Path Infotech ltd

The solution is scalable and affordable, but it lacks features, and it is not easy to manage

Management of RHEV is not as easy as VMware. Some features do not work. The product does not provide features similar to VMware’s VMotion. After creating the cluster, the VM is moved to another node if we move down. However, the VM does not move the parent node automatically. It has to be moved manually. VMware moves it automatically. RHEV moves it to the parent node only if we restart. Everything can be handled in VMware through the GUI. However, in RHEV, some things can be managed through UI, and others cannot. We have to troubleshoot and use CLI. A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The simplicity is a strong point."

"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."

"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."

"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."

"It provides reliable virtualization that supports our operational needs without significant performance issues."

"It is a scalable solution."

"It is a stable product that has been reliable for several years."

"Its technical support is quite good."

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"It is a scalable solution."

"It is very stable."

"The solution has a good licensing module."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."

"Technically, the main reason why I'm using Red Hat is because of its stability."

"The biggest aspect for me is the disk usage, the virtual manager, and the deployment of machines."

"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."

"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan."

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Cons

"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."

"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."

"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."

"Its database management features could be better."

"Our product had several issues with post-migration."

"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."

"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."

"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."

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"We should improve how we manage storage domains and make more comprehensive control available through the command line."

"Red Hat by itself is not scalable. But you can have third party add-ons like Ceph to make it massively scalable."

"I heard that there are big differences between Red Hat eight and seven, but it's still quite difficult for me to judge it. I found it a bit more difficult to manage than version seven, which was much easier. In term of features, though, it is still not yet clear which is better. I have no clear idea of which features need to be changed at the moment."

"The support is tricky in a few places. We're facing some challenges within Malaysia where we don't really have the system integrators available who can provide extended support. When we need personnel on-site, we can't get them."

"My teammates and I often complain that VMware is well-documented and has a large community since it is the de facto standard. I would love to see better documentation and ease of use."

"The documentation is not as good as it should be."

"Customers are not aware of this solution, they can improve by providing more awareness and solution availability."

"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The user will be charged accordingly as well—pay as you go. Basically, you get charged only for storage. If I stop a VM, then I'm not charged for the CPU usage. So, that's fine."

"All other vendors are selling their licenses to use the VM, but Oracle isn't doing that, which is its biggest advantage. It is free. All you have to do is get the hardware. You can create an unlimited number of VMs for free. With VMware, you have to purchase licenses for the number of VMs that you want to create. You only pay for their premium support, and even that is optional. I am now learning this product, and we can even do without the support."

"The solution as a standalone product can not be purchased."

"The price of the license is expensive."

"The solution is free but we have to pay for technical support."

"The pricing for the platform is aligned with other enterprise virtualization solutions."

"Oracle is free of charge, although you have to have a subscription for the support."

"The cost of this solution is cheap. It is one of the reasons we chose Oracle VM. It is truly "pocket- friendly.""

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"We buy a license for commercial use, and we also use the free editions."

"I would say the price is acceptable."

"Price-wise, RHEV is okay, in my opinion."

"We have to pay extra for vulnerability and fault tolerance."

"This product has a variety of licensing options available. However, the level of licensing, and therefore the cost of licensing, is dependent on the number of servers being utilized."

"This is an open-source solution."

"It's a budget product as far as I'm concerned. It's way cheaper than any of its competitors. The only thing cheaper than Red Hat is that the people who take the Red Hat code clone it and then self-support it."

"I believe we pay on a yearly basis."

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Jan 13, 2015

vSphere vs. RHEV vs. Hyper-V vs. XenServer

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Oracle VM or KVM?

I would prefer if KVM was easier to scale and not so limited. Overall the product has been helpful. It is easy to use, and was quite straight-forward to set up. Since I have been using KVM, I have ...

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Which is better - Oracle VM or VMware VSphere?

Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is consid...

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What do you like most about Oracle VM?

If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private n...

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What do you like most about RHEV?

The initial setup is fairly straightforward and well-documented. The process is very similar to its competitors. The success of your setup depends on how well you plan.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RHEV?

It's the open source. There's not much cost. It's very minimal comparably. Compared to what I am paying for VMware, it's negligible.

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What needs improvement with RHEV?

My teammates and I often complain that VMware is well-documented and has a large community since it is the de facto standard. I would love to see better documentation and ease of use. For newcomers...

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Comparisons

VMware vSphere vs Oracle VM

Compared 34% of the time

KVM vs Oracle VM

Compared 18% of the time

Proxmox VE vs Oracle VM

Compared 18% of the time

Oracle VM VirtualBox vs Oracle VM

Compared 15% of the time

Nutanix AHV Virtualization vs Oracle VM

Compared 1% of the time

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Compared 53% of the time

Proxmox VE vs RHEV

Compared 17% of the time

Hyper-V vs RHEV

Compared 10% of the time

KVM vs RHEV

Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

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.

Oracle

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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Sample Customers

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