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 initial setup was straightforward."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"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."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"The fact that you can use all the CPU and memory power that the server can provide is most valuable. In a physical server, you might end up not using all the physical resources. There are a lot of benefits, such as flexibility and mobility, in virtualizing computes."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"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."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and IBM PowerVM. See our Oracle VM VirtualBox vs. VMware vSphere report.
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