We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle VM has a slight edge in the comparison. It is a mature, stable, and flexible solution. One area where Oracle VM VirtualBox did come out on top, however, was in the ease of deployment category.
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Incorporating analytics related to performance, particularly within the dashboard interface, would be beneficial."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"The interface should be easier to comprehend"
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 62 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Oracle VM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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