We performed a comparison between Hyper-V, Oracle VM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"It's quite stable."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"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."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"This solution creates a snapshot of virtual machines so you can create test environments."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"The solution is an outdated Xen-based application."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"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."
"You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
