Citrix Hypervisor vs Oracle VM comparison

Citrix Hypervisor

Read 46 Citrix Hypervisor reviews

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80% willing to recommend

Oracle VM

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83% willing to recommend

Citrix Hypervisor

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Executive Summary

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.

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Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM

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Categories and Ranking

Citrix Hypervisor

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Oracle VM

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of Citrix Hypervisor is 5.7%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle VM is 7.6%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Bunmi Sadiq

CTO at Syscodes Communications Ltd

Mar 9, 2023

Open-source and robust with great templates

We primarily use the solution for virtual machines, in order to boost them or back them up. It has high availability as well The product is highly stable and very robust. Most importantly, we can rely on it. It's plug-and-play and we don't have to worry about it. Once you have your infrastructure…

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Suresh Bora

IT Infrastructure Lead at iConnect IT Business Solutions DMCC

Jul 26, 2020

Stable, with good resource management, but needs to allow more access to documentation

I'm still evaluating the product and getting to know it. The only thing I'm finding is that the backup software, which is supporting Oracle's virtualization platform, needs improvement. We're struggling to get a solution that will support my Oracle virtualization environment for backup purposes. I just found one on the internet. I was trying to reach out to that team now, to see how best we can use it. However, if Oracle had a solution to this, that would be ideal. You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there. There are some articles that are publicly available, but there are some important documents that are not available to the public. You need to subscribe, or you need to have a licensed copy, some subscription with the product. Any product, at the end of the day, needs support. When the support or the knowledge base or the information is not available or the documentation is not available for any of this, for the person who is implementing this, it's very difficult for them to get used to this product. They will simply move to another product.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The initial setup is easy."

"Scripting can automate procedures."

"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."

"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 most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."

"The solution is extremely stable."

"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."

"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."

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"It's not a very expensive product."

"The stability is rock solid."

"It is a scalable solution."

"The product is simple and easy to use."

"It's a very mature product."

"It is very useful for the project management of our company."

"It is a stable product."

"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."

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Cons

"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."

"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."

"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."

"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."

"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."

"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."

"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."

"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."

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"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."

"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."

"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."

"The tool's price and stability could be better."

"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."

"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."

"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."

"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are three editions available and I believe they are perpetual licenses."

"There are free and paid versions. The free version is limited in features but not by time limit. The paid version has more features."

"This solution is open source, it's free."

"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive."

"To subscribe to the paid version with support, it is approximately $6,000 per year."

"The pricing and licensing is so important. Customers do consider the price seriously."

"Citrix is a good low-cost alternative to VMware, so if budgeting is an issue then I would recommend it."

"There is a license required to use this solution. You need a license on every server, but the license is more for support than anything else. The cost is not expensive, it is a fraction of the cost of VMware. When you look at the cost overall and features, Citrix Hypervisor has a very attractive offering."

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"I have heard from my colleague that it comes with a high price tag."

"The cost of this solution is cheap. It is one of the reasons we chose Oracle VM. It is truly "pocket- friendly.""

"The licensing for Oracle VM solution is very nice because you license the box."

"Oracle VM is not expensive. I rate its pricing a three out of ten."

"With having a global contract, we get some discounts."

"The solution as a standalone product can not be purchased."

"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool."

"Pricing and licensing is one of the main decision making reasons for going to Oracle VM because it was cost effective."

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Comparison Review

Thang Le Toan (Victory Lee)

CIO at Robusta Technology & Training

Jan 13, 2015

vSphere vs. RHEV vs. Hyper-V vs. XenServer

We have used the following functions: 1. Hypervisor: to ensure that the virtual server provide web and email services to the company, thus providing a stable operation a with single sign-on integration of an AD server and vCenter. 2. Network and Storage: centralized data server…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

49%

Computer Software Company

Government

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

45%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Citrix Hypervisor?

The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Citrix Hypervisor?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with one being very inexpensive and ten being very expensive.

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What needs improvement with Citrix Hypervisor?

It is a scalable product and provides great benefits for virtualization needs. However, there are a few considerations: * Cost: Citrix Hypervisor can be fairly expensive. * Complexity: There's a le...

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Which is better - Oracle VM or KVM?

I would prefer if KVM was easier to scale and not so limited. Overall the product has been helpful. It is easy to use, and was quite straight-forward to set up. Since I have been using KVM, I have ...

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Which is better - Oracle VM or VMware VSphere?

Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is consid...

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What do you like most about Oracle VM?

If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private n...

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Comparisons

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Compared 24% of the time

Hyper-V vs Citrix Hypervisor

Compared 22% of the time

KVM vs Citrix Hypervisor

Compared 7% of the time

VMware Workstation vs Citrix Hypervisor

Compared 1% of the time

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Compared 35% of the time

KVM vs Oracle VM

Compared 19% of the time

Oracle VM VirtualBox vs Oracle VM

Compared 17% of the time

Proxmox VE vs Oracle VM

Compared 15% of the time

IBM PowerVM vs Oracle VM

Compared 0% of the time

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Overview

Citrix Hypervisor is a leading virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures. Consolidation and containment of workloads on Citrix Hypervisor enables organizations of any vertical or size to transform their business IT compute infrastructures.

Oracle VM for x86

Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud.

Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

Oracle VM for SPARC

Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

Sample Customers

U.S. Army Shared Services Center, SoftLayer, Educational Services of America, Independent Bank, and SK Telecom.

Ambulance Victoria, Australian Finance Group (AFG), Avnet Technology Solutions, CERN, cloudKleyer, Danish Tax Authority (SKAT), Data Intensity, Dubai World, Engineers Australia, Enkitec, Groupe FLO, Guerra S.A. Implemento, s Rodovišrios, Interactive One, IT Convergence, Jesta Digital, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, KT, Kyoto Prefecture, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / National Ignition Facility, Multinet Pakistan, National Australia Bank (NAB), Navis LLC, Overhead Door, Overstock.com, Paragon Data, Parks Victoria, Pella, Sunway Shared Services, St. Louis Metro, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., University of Massachusetts, Versace,

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