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."This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"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."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"The solution is very stable."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"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 46 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 62 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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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