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 solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"Technical support is good."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Simple to use, easy to configure, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, 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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