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."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."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"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."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"It's very simple to use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"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 USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"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."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
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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