We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Scripting can automate procedures."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost. I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"The Foundation is the most valuable feature of Oracle VM."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"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."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The interface has to be updated."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."
"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."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "An easy-to-use solution with virtualization features that helped during lockdown". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "Flexible solution with extensive features like OVM Manager, enabling you to avoid hard coding". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMware Workstation, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM report.
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