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."It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"It is a stable product."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"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 feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"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."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"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 should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"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."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
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, Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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