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."Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"Technical support is good."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"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 is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"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 product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
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, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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