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 onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"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."
"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 continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very stable."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The configuration and installation is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"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."
"The interface has to be updated."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"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."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"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."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"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 find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
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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