We performed a comparison between Oracle VM VirtualBox, RHEV, 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."The installation is easy."
"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 initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"It's very simple to use."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has a good licensing module."
"The solution is a great all-round product. The virtualization is especially good."
"Stability and speed are the most valuable aspects."
"The solution is overall very good with all the facilities. It is user friendly, easy to configure, has documentation, and support is available."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support portal."
"This solution is very stable. Much more so than similar products."
"What they provide is way beyond the essential requirements of customers."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The solution is not flexible."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly."
"While everything needs improvement in some way, I have no specifics."
"A few features of the product do not work as well as those in VMware."
"The documentation is not as good as it should be."
"The biggest improvement would be more third-party direct support for things like backups and provisioning through third-party portals."
"It lags behind in that you need to go to something like Fedora to get all the extra bells and whistles."
"With RHEV, the cyberattacks should be fewer. I want RHEV to be better protected."
"The Administration of the Oracle database and the SAP ERP needs improvement."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"the HTML version of things needs to get a little bit better. The vSphere side of things gets a little difficult to manage; right-click, in some browsers, doesn't work as well as it used to. I'm seeing a little bit of general latency that we didn't used to get with the thick client, although it's getting there."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"The hardware cost is high."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
