We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM VirtualBox 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 features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"It is a stable product."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The installation is easy."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The interface has to be updated."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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