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 installation is easy."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"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 solution is not flexible."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The reporting could be improved."
"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 solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
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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