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it_user1077 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Oracle VM is an extremely feature rich, high performance product, which provides an environment to leverage the benefits of virtualization technology.

What is most valuable?

1) It allows deploying operating systems and the application software’s within supported platforms and environments.2) It includes VM Server which is designed to provide a secure, lightweight, server based platform to run and execute virtual machines. And also includes VM Manager which manages VM Servers.3) The product is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

What needs improvement?

1) Drag and Drop feature is not stable, at times the UI becomes inconsistent, when using this feature.2) Connecting VM Manager in a web browser twice in a different tab or window provides unexpected display issues.3) When upgrading the VM server to newer version from ISO image and CD, though new entries are created in Oracle Linux grub menu, however entries from previous installation are not removed.All and all the product offers number of benefits to the users who often use multiple platforms. Though there are some disadvantages of the product which can be fixed with some workarounds.

What other advice do I have?

Though the latest release 3.1.1 is quite mature and has more to offer in terms of performance, usability, security, and scalability.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user3876 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user3876Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User

Oracle VM runs well with Oracle SAN, but do the third party vendors like EMC SAN also support Oracle VM?

it_user448686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Middleware Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
While it is a good solution for virtualization, it is less flexible than other market solutions like VMware.

Valuable Features:

The CPU pinning feature that allows to link a virtual CPU (VCPU) to a physical CPU core. This feature is very useful in a virtualized environment who has on premise applications licenced by restricted number of CPU cores.

Improvements to My Organization:

As a virtualization solution, this product help us to build and deploy development environments more quickly.

Room for Improvement:

Resizing of Virtual disk needs to be improved, as does hot swap for VCPU and RAM.

Use of Solution:

I've been using it for years.

Deployment Issues:

There were no issues with the deployment.

Stability Issues:

We've experienced no issues with performance.

Scalability Issues:

It's been able to scale for our needs.

Other Advice:

While it is a good solution for virtualization, Oracle VM is less flexible than other market solutions like VMware.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Our company is Oracle Platinum Partner and provides IT services based on Oracle Products like Database, Middleware as well as Virtualization.
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it_user516714 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user516714Helpdesk level 3 at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User

I agree with most of his comments

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it_user3894 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Beware using it with Web Services APIs

Valuable Features:

Oracle VM is open source so it is free and readily available for downloading. It saves a lot of money instead of purchasing multiple servers, and can allow you to load more than one operating system at a time. Use of Oracle VM and installation is quite simple. It has high security and works well with a wide range of hardware.

Room for Improvement:

Oracle VM has some of its versions supporting only English language. So you can think of what happens to non-English speakers. Using it on Web services APIs -- standard access is enabled by default, which is a security flaw.Although open source, downloading some of the applications is very tedious because they are too large.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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