Oracle Virtualization: Unlock savings,
unleash innovation

Oracle Virtualization is an enterprise-grade, KVM-based solution that helps organizations cut IT costs and streamline management—without vendor lock-in. Trusted by enterprises worldwide and powering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it offers robust security, disaster recovery, automation, and zero-downtime updates—all in a cost-effective support subscription.

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Why Choose Oracle Virtualization?

Unlock budget Innovation

Unlock budget Innovation

Lower your IT infrastructure costs, freeing up budget to invest in high-impact projects like AI and analytics.

Flexible open architecture

Flexible open architecture

Get open-source freedom with a KVM-based virtualization solution supporting all your deployments – on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid.

Enterprise-grade support

Enterprise-grade
support

Gain peace of mind with Oracle’s global premier plus support covering from your OS to hypervisor to workload.

Proven technology without vendor lock-in

Proven technology without vendor lock-in

Linux and KVM will free you from vendor lock-in. Use the same technology that powers Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other hyperscalers.

Migrate at your own pace on your own terms

Migrate at your own pace on your own terms

Plan your migration path. Use migration tools from Oracle or others and get professional support when needed.

Oracle Virtualization Core Components and Unique features

  • Kernel-based Virtual Machine

    Oracle Linux KVM

    The Oracle-supported, enterprise-grade version of the opensource Linux KVM hypervisor, delivered as part of Oracle Linux. It helps organizations to virtualize their infrastructure efficiently, with the backing and support of Oracle for mission-critical deployments.

  • Oracle Linux KVM
  • Management Platform
  • Management Platform

    Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

    A powerful, intuitive platform that streamlines deployment, configuration, and management of your Oracle Linux KVM environments, with enterprise-grade performance and support from Oracle.

  • Security updates

    Zero-downtime updates with Ksplice

    Apply security patches to the Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor, without reboots. Ksplice helps keep your systems protected and compliant, enabling continuous availability with zero downtime.

  • Security updates
  • Monitoring
  • Monitoring

    Grafana-integrated monitoring

    Monitor your environments in real time with built-in Grafana dashboards and custom alerts, enhancing visibility and enabling proactive management—all easily accessed from the management console.

  • Licensing Optimization

    Cost-efficient licensing with hard partitioning with Oracle Linux KVM

    License only the CPU cores dedicated to Oracle workloads, not the entire server—delivering major cost savings, predictable licensing, and improved hardware utilization, fully supported by Oracle’s partitioning policy.

  • Licensing Optimization

Oracle Linux Premier Plus Support features

Oracle Virtualization delivers all the core server virtualization features – plus unique innovations you won’t find elsewhere.

All these features in a single, cost effective subscription, making management, and budgeting simple.

  • ✔ Application licensing savings with hard partitioning
  • ✔ No downtime for security updates with Ksplice
  • ✔ Live virtual machine migration
  • ✔ Live storage migration
  • ✔ Virtual machine high availability / automatically restarted
  • ✔ Active/Active disaster recovery
  • ✔ Active/Passive disaster recovery
  • ✔ Scheduling policies
  • ✔ Role-based access for granular, user-level controls
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