We performed a comparison between Hyper-V, Oracle VM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"Because of the virtualization for Linux, I use just Linux basically in all VMs, a few with Windows."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"It's quite stable."
"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."
"I like Oracle VM's vMotion and cloning features."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"The installation is easy."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Oracle VM could provide integration with backup solutions."
"Integrating with the internal system is not very easy."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"There have been some security issues in the past."
"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."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"It has some issues when you have some weird device drivers. For instance, when you have a weird sound driver working on your machine, and the VirtualBox needs to output the sound of the virtual machine into the sound driver of the physical machine, the bare metal, it doesn't work too well. If you tweak lots of drivers and play around with the different kinds of drivers and machines, you will probably break something. I have not played with it too much and maybe it already supports it, but it would probably be good to have the ability to use a container from the virtual machine environment instead of spinning off a complete virtual machine. There are other tools for that. On Linux, you have a DXE, LXC framework, and you have Docker as well. Docker is good because it is multi-platform, and you can run Docker on pretty much anything, even different processors, but it would be good if we had a VirtualBox running on it while spinning off containers instead of full virtual machines. The other thing that will become important, and I'm pretty sure that they are thinking about it as well is that there's this new hardware platform that Apple is releasing, which is an ARM-based new chip. So, VirtualBox will probably have to work on ARM-based CPUs as well."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
