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."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"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."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"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."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
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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