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.
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"It is a stable product."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The solution lacks some open source remote administration tools. The reload of individual virtual machine definitions through the vboxweb service (via its API) without restarting it and the access to shared storage (to use teleport functions) need to be improved."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The solution is not flexible."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
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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