We performed a comparison between Oracle VM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"It's quite stable."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"The network capabilities are good."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"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."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"Its database management features could be better."
"There are currently issues with centralized storage."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."
"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."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
"Oracle VMs don't have a solid web interface of their own. This is an area where Oracle is lagging behind. Now, we use headless servers, install Oracle VMs, and manage them remotely. We could use phpVirtual Box, but it is a third-party solution. A lot of people contribute to it, and it's not authenticated by Oracle. As a result, I don't find it to be a good option. Therefore, I would like to see Oracle offer an extension pack or a licensed version that fixes this problem."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
