We performed a comparison between Hyper V and Oracle VM Virtual Box based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results:
Our users like Hyper-V best. Many of our users are deeply committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, so it is an excellent seamless fit. Additionally, users find the failover feature very important and, as Hyper-V is not a heavy solution, it does not overuse resources. Hyper-V makes it easy to move any virtual machine across push servers without complication. Finally, Hyper-V is very easy to manage and offers great performance.
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The installation is easy."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"Technical support is good."
"It's very simple to use."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The solution is not flexible."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Hyper-V vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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