Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) vs. Oracle Virtualization

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
KVM	Score 2.1 out of 10	N/A	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.	N/A
Oracle Virtualization	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Virtualization is an enterprise-grade server virtualization solution that provides KVM virtualization and management capabilities and built-in disaster recovery features with no license cost.	N/A

Pricing

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
KVM	Oracle Virtualization
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization

Features

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) 9.2 Ratings 12% above category average	Oracle Virtualization 7.2 Ratings 12% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.00 Ratings	5.70 Ratings
Management console	9.00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.70 Ratings	5.50 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	9.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.50 Ratings	8.40 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle Virtualization
Likelihood to Recommend	Kernel-based Virtual Machine is very well suited when one needs a single-node virtualization host or needs to build a complex demo setting on their own notebook (e.g. when demonstrating solutions to a customer). Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	Customers considering virtualization software can consider Oracle VM Server as their single-stop solution. The data centre managers should look at this as their first option. And certainly Oracle, with its long legacy in enterprise IT, knows how to build a powerful virtualization platform. Besides its free for Oracle customers makes it pretty unique in its own field. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Lightweight built-in implementation for all *nix based OS. Easy to deploy and manage VMs. Freeware (is you are using a free OS). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great price. Nomenclature of backup is well defined. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	KVM itself doesn't ship with a management interface KVM itself is a bit complicated to handle KVM needs Qemu to virtualize Windows guests Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	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. Incentivized Itsik Tsarfati IT Director Read full review
Usability	It does the job and stays out of the way. The specifics of usability relies on the implementation, but with things like Icarus and libvirt, things are standardizing nicely. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The key points why I made my decision for KVM in comparison with VMWare are: Freeware software (I am using an Ubuntu server OS), Fewer resources usage, vSwitch using that provides the ability to configure dot1q trunks to/between VMs, Stability, and simplicity of using/troubleshooting, Well-known interface (for Linux geeks). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Capital expenditure costs are low, because is open-source and free Operational expenditure costs are medium because it's necessary [to have] an IT team with experience in Linux First step to the virtualization world. Wake up, we are in the 21st century Incentivized Stenio Pereira Filho IT Group manager Read full review	Reducing physical costs Safety Cost benefit Need to improve the platform designer Provide more support material Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review
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