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."Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"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."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"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."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"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."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"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."
"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’s support team should improve its response time."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
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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