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."Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"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."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"Technical support is good."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"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."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"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 solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
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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