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 most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"It's very simple to use."
"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 snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"Given that I've been using version seven, it seems that some of the bugs I faced during that version have already been addressed in subsequent updates. Although I haven't personally tested them yet, it appears that these issues have been resolved. In version seven, there was a problem with the network interface not responding due to certain configurations not being properly filtered. However, in version eight, this requirement has been minimized, so the mentioned bug is less likely to occur. Instead of solely addressing these fixes in newer versions, it might be beneficial for them to consider applying these improvements to the older versions as well. This approach could prevent users from feeling compelled to upgrade to version eight solely to avoid encountering the issue, and instead provide updates for version seven users."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
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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