We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM, and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"VMware is user-friendly, with clear integration and detailed migration."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The solution is very stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"It's a very mature product."
"The stability is rock solid."
"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."
"It's easy to adjust the size up and down."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"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."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated."
"The solution is at its end of life and is about to be discontinued."
"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."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"The solution could be more stable."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
