We performed a comparison between Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMware vSphere 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."The scalability of the solution is very good."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"It is a stable product."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"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."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"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."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"My biggest suggestion would be some kind of a mechanism - and it's almost an AI-type thing, a Siri/Cortana - for where to find how to do certain things. If there was the ability to just type in a basic question and say, "How do I change the VM settings for this?" and it could bring me right there, that would be really awesome."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Simple to use, easy to configure, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Oracle VM VirtualBox vs. VMware vSphere report.
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