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."It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"It is a stable product."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, 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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