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 most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"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."
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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