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 most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"The solution saves cost."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"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 think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
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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