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."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"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."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"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."
"The solution is not flexible."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
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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