We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM 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."Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"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."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"Good visualization hypervisor."
"It's a very mature product."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private network. The security is set."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"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 USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. 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 writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and VMware Workstation, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and IBM PowerVM. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM report.
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