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 ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"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 solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"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."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
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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