We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM 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 price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"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."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"Oracle VM is user-friendly and facilitates compliance with Oracle Licensing, a feature not provided by competitors like VMware or Hyper-V. Oracle prefers customers to use their technology. It is also easy to implement, clone, and deploy machines with Oracle VM, making it a convenient solution."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"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."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"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."
"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 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."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and VMware Workstation, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and IBM PowerVM. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM report.
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