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 aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"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 versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"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 makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible."
"The solution can scale well."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"Oracle VMs don't have a solid web interface of their own. This is an area where Oracle is lagging behind. Now, we use headless servers, install Oracle VMs, and manage them remotely. We could use phpVirtual Box, but it is a third-party solution. A lot of people contribute to it, and it's not authenticated by Oracle. As a result, I don't find it to be a good option. Therefore, I would like to see Oracle offer an extension pack or a licensed version that fixes this problem."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
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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