Oracle VM

What do you like best?

We used Oracle VM for SPARC PROCESSORS for virtualized our databases running on Solaris OS, for our X86 Processors we found that Oracle VM Server does the job, it let us create a virtual machine in a stable platform that it is compliance with the Oracle License agreement (Oracle Soft Partitioning for virtualization).

What do you dislike?

Management is not intuitive Backups Operation, you must design your own plan

Recommendations to others considering the product:

"For virtualization platform its lacks of a lot of functionalities when you compare it with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Oracle VM Server does the job that it was design for, it lets you virtualize virtual machines running with Oracle Red Hat Enterprise Server as Hypervisor, and then you must deploy a separate server like your ORACLE VM Management which deploy an agent on Oracle VM Server to manage it. In order to have a Cluster and Live Migration (Vmotion in vmware) you must configure a container, it will be a server pool. We got a bunch of physical servers running Oracle VM Server and their main objective it to virtualize servers that runs oracle products because oracle recognized as software portioning Oracle VM Server for licenses oracle products such like databases and WebLogic without licensing the whole processors."

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

- Licensing Management

- Partitioning Issues

- Consolidate Servers