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 solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"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 product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The installation is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"Technical support is good."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"The interface is good."
"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 virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"The solution is not flexible."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
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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