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.
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"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 product is simple and easy to use."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"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."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th 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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