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."Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"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."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The technical support needs to improve."
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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