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 solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"It is a stable product."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"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."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The solution is not flexible."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
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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