We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, 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."The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"Technical support is good."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The interface has to be updated."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"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 communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"The only way for it to be a complete product is if you integrate all the functionalities. Then you don't need any backup solution anymore and you can do it by yourself. Integration needs improvement. They should improve a lot of the functionality because normally it's half of a product. You're only protecting yourself against technical failures but not against any cyber threats or any other stuff."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
