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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The solution is very stable."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"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."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"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."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"The hardware cost is high."
"The price could be better."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
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, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Oracle VM VirtualBox vs. VMware vSphere report.
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