We performed a comparison between Hyper V and Oracle VM Virtual Box based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results:
Our users like Hyper-V best. Many of our users are deeply committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, so it is an excellent seamless fit. Additionally, users find the failover feature very important and, as Hyper-V is not a heavy solution, it does not overuse resources. Hyper-V makes it easy to move any virtual machine across push servers without complication. Finally, Hyper-V is very easy to manage and offers great performance.
"It is stable."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"It is an affordable platform."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"The installation is easy."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"Technical support is good."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"This solution needs improvement with the business continuity planning, disaster and recovery management and using centralized data storage."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"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 needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Simple to use, easy to configure, and reliable". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Hyper-V vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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