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 is a highly scalable solution."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The solution is very stable."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"Technical support is good."
"The performance is efficient."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"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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