We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM, 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."The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The network capabilities are good."
"The cloning is a great feature and live migration is very easy."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"The user interface of the version that we have requires improvement. They have already improved the user interface in the latest version, but we are yet to migrate to that. The new UI is much better. I would like it to be simple. It is serving all of our needs, and I don't think it is necessary to keep adding. We are able to provision a VM in ten minutes, and provisioning it in five minutes will not have any added benefit."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"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."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
