We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"Technical support is good."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The interface has to be updated."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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