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.
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"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."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"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."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"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 user interface needs to be improved."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". 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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