Oracle VM VirtualBox Scalability

Gio Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Advisor/ CEO at Xerif

The solution is scalable but you have to put in a lot of effort to reach the goal. I rate the scalability a seven out of ten. 

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Tomasz Pietas - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at LPEC

I don't deal with scalability. I just use it on a laptop. I don't use it on a cluster. I don't need to scale. 

Right now, I use it personally for teaching and for my own work.

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

I find scalability quite easy. I'm used to it and I know how to handle it. 

We have about ten to 20 people using the product. A few use it on-premises, for example, for the larger service. All people will use it in the cluster.

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Kopano  Ramaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SmartCloud

I rate the product’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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SG
Works

The scalability is okay, however, it needs improvement. 

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

The personal version isn't so scalable. You have to shut down the guest and change the parameters and restart the guests.

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SJ
Managing Director

Oracle VM VirtualBox's scalability is good, but resizing of storage can be a bit challenging sometimes. I would give scalability a rating of eight out of ten.

I focus mostly on SMEs, particularly those who run their enterprise solutions on cloud-based services.

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H_C - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Microstuf Computers Clinic Inc

We have 60 to 90 Oracle VM VirtualBox users in our organization.

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Christophe JOBARD - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Direction GRID SAS

The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a three out of ten.

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TD
IT Architect - AI at CGI

The scalability is good.

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OL
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

I don't have any impressions on the scalability because I only use it at home, and one of the machines that we have is not so powerful. The other one is a little powerful. So, we can run lots of virtual machines, but we don't run that many.

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WS
Product Specialist at Schoemans Technologies

I think it is a very scalable product and it stays stable while you scale it. For example, while it is active on a production server, you can expand the capabilities. You can stop and start or add virtual machines. The only thing that you have to know is not to allocate more resources on that hardware platform than is available in the hardware. The scalability of the hardware is separate from the product itself. You can't scale the product bigger than the resources on the box.

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EN
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

So far my needs have been really static. I've not really tried to invest in scalability because my needs are fixed currently, so I do not have too much to say about scalability. But it should not be an issue.

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it_user418404 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at Cloudian Inc

I do not have more than four virtual VMs running concurrently as these are all individual pods deployed for demo purposes etc.

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it_user86316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Area Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

The solution is not scalable.

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FK
Head Of Information Technology at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

If you wanted to scale this solution out, or up, an automation tool may make it easier and more user-friendly, or more straightforward.

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it_user418230 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I've not had to scale it.

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Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at Human Code

I don't have enough information to gauge the solution's level of scalability. Our set up was in a controlled environment without scalability issues. We had an initial load, which was quite controlled, so we didn't test scalability with it. We just have our team, five people, using the solution.

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it_user521889 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable. It does what we need to do with our images for our production, especially for the Linux images.

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SP
Systems Engineering at Atlantica Digital

The solution is scalable because I can run several guest environments on one node.

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MI
Network and Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. Nowadays all products are scalable. The scalability basically depends on the hardware and software. However, when you're talking about product, 90% of the products are scalable.

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it_user124704 - PeerSpot reviewer
PeopleSoft Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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IS
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE

It is very good. I think there is a lot of things you can do with it. But as I said, I've been using it for production only for desktops and test purposes and training purposes. I think if we hire more employees in the company, we will have them use it as well. It is free when you use it for desktop purposes and training purposes. As long as you're not using it for production, you don't have to pay for it. I think as long as we get new employees in our company they most likely will be using VirtualBox.

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it_user769620 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and CTO

I haven't scaled it to that level, but we're about to do that. I will have a client that is going to virtualize 5000 to 10,000 virtual machines initially. Towards the next year we'll take it up to about 200,000 to 250,000. We'll soon find out what we'll need to implement it.

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it_user435519 - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP System Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've had no issue scaling it to our needs.

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it_user136407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We haven't scaled it as I'm only using it on my laptop.

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EF
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The scalability of Oracle VM VirtualBox is good.

I am only using the solution myself.

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MM
Pr. Scientist at PIEAS

There are between 15 and 20 students using this product. This is going to be expanding in the future because we are doing several migrations in the environment.

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it_user430674 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user161850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Design Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with the scaling.

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it_user416094 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

It has been able to scale for our needs without issue.

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VC
Sr. Director at LogiCorner Info Tech.

Although we haven't needed to scale out, I'd imagine it's quite scalable. 

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it_user136770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user266604 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst with 51-200 employees

It has been able to scale to our needs without any issues.

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it_user71118 - PeerSpot reviewer
e-Learning Systems Developer Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user104151 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We've not scaled it at all. I just run three different versions of Linux and three on Windows at different times.

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AT
IT Staff; Programmer at a university with 51-200 employees

The scalability is okay, however, it is limited. It's only about 50% as scalable as I expected it to be.

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GM
student with 11-50 employees

I have not needed to scale higher than what I set out to do. Everyone in our company uses the solution. It is used by just 12 staff members. We have one administrator managing the solution.

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OS
IT Infrastructure and Security Specialist

This is a highly scalable solution for our infrastructure. We have over 1000 people using this solution. They are using a computer system which has authentication, uses an active directory setup, with corresponding credentials. They are also accessing other software and central data storage for their file and storage management systems. Additionally, they are using a web application and database management solution for their specific role.

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it_user801585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at Oriental Weavers

The scalability of the solution is very good.  

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it_user87804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
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it_user187272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No scalability issues were experienced.

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it_user104652 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues with the scalability.

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it_user430668 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clinical Applications Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user436125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Product Dev at a tech company

We've had issues with scalability. This is something that Oracle should work on.

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