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# oVirt Reviews
**Vendor:** Open Virtualization  
**Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About oVirt
oVirt is an open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible.




## oVirt Reviews
  ### 1. Still very bad for production use cases, is a good alternative for some limited use cases.

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Şenol . | Founder, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022

**What do you like best about oVirt?**

Ovirt is fully opensource, which is perfect.
Good for testing labs
Integrated tools (Cloudforms and manage-iq) works out of the box.
Nested Virtualization works nicely.
UI is really nice, tenant and tag definitions are perfect.

**What do you dislike about oVirt?**

Can't be installed on Debian/Ubuntu.
Snapshot issues, When you create a snapshot, be careful.
Gluster Storage issues (not stable)
Cepth Storage issues (not stable)
NFS problems.

**What problems is oVirt solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Virtualization, unfortunately on our production environments we had issues and we decomissioned oVirt.



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## oVirt Features
**Performance**
- Scalability
- Portability
- Data Recovery
- Disaster Recovery

**Functionality**
- OS Integration
- Resource Saving
- Performance Management
- Security
- Third-Party Integrations
- User Management
- Compliance Management
- Task Management

**Agentic AI - Server Virtualization**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making
- File Transfer

**Additional Functionality**
- Cloud Computing
- Archiving & Retention
- Issue Tracking
- Virtual Machine Migration
- Server Monitoring
- Status Tracking
- Secure Login
- Activity Dashboard
- API
- Graphical User Interface
- Secure Data Storage
- Alerts/Escalation
- Generative AI
- Virtual Server
- Remote Update/Installation
- Data Verification
- AI Copilot
- Reporting & Statistics
- VDI
- Database Support
- Data Synchronization
- Data Replication
- Virtual Machine Monitoring

## Top oVirt Alternatives
  - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (756 reviews)
  - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,347 reviews)
  - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (933 reviews)