We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, IBM PowerVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"It's scalable. Whenever we buy another product other than hardware, it's easily integrated into the virtualization software that we download."
"Technical support is great."
"It's in English, so its exceptional qualities make the control environment more flexible, easier, more stable, and easy to recover after issues."
"A valuable feature of PowerVM is a feature that is used for higher availability plus stream for posting, which is very useful. There's a flash copy feature which we are using. PowerVM itself, I know, helps us to control and manage our Oracle licensing compliance, since it is our hardware partitioning. This is very important. If you use VMware, there will be a licensing issue. This PowerVM is a hardware partitioner, which is very important for license compliance. We are happy with this solution."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The most valuable features in this solution are you do not get degradation in the performance like you could get in other solutions. There is a physical adapter that is better than a virtual one and you can assign adapters to a VM."
"Managing other operating systems is also straightforward with IBM PowerVM."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"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 has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"IBM PowerVM could improve the price because it is expensive."
"The licensing could be better."
"SRM for site recovery is a feature that should be included."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"The program has very limited solutions for the virtualization of containers"
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"If it could actually virtualize the entire platform it might be better. If you're having more than one virtualization technology, maybe there's a way to actually have less - one technology to run the data center and maybe one special virtualization for power. If it integrated with other platforms more effectively it might be better."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"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."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"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 doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
