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."This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"VMware's high availability which supports our SLA, VMware on the fly features like LUN expansion, P2V and API integrations are the most valuable features."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"The interface is good."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"The scalability is good."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"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 could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The quality of support could be better."
"The only way for it to be a complete product is if you integrate all the functionalities. Then you don't need any backup solution anymore and you can do it by yourself. Integration needs improvement. They should improve a lot of the functionality because normally it's half of a product. You're only protecting yourself against technical failures but not against any cyber threats or any other stuff."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The reporting could be improved."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
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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