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."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"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."
"It's very simple to use."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"It's easy to use."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
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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