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."I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"Technical support is good."
"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."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The solution is not flexible."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"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."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
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, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, 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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