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."Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"Technical support is good."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"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."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The product offers good stability."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"The solution is very scalable."
"Workloads; We use vSphere for mission-critical apps including SAP and and part of our internal development in C+, for the solution that collects everything for the buyers."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"The solution is not flexible."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"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 The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."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."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
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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