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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's very simple to use."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"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."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"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."
"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."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "An easy-to-use solution with virtualization features that helped during lockdown". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Simple to use, easy to configure, and reliable". 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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