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 solution is very stable."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"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."
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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