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."This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"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."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"From the interface, you see how much CPU utilization and RAM utilization that each one of those hosts is giving you. You can tell ahead of time when you need to start expanding the environment. And with VMotion, you expand the environment and then let DRS have at it and walk away."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"It's easy to use."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"The solution lacks some open source remote administration tools. The reload of individual virtual machine definitions through the vboxweb service (via its API) without restarting it and the access to shared storage (to use teleport functions) need to be improved."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The solution is not flexible."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"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."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
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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