Oracle VM VirtualBox Primary Use Case

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

I have mounted it with GlusterFS and I use it along with three on-prem physical nodes with Arch Linux's operating system and 12 VLANs to support around 50 VMs in different environments (TESTS, DEMOS, PRODUCTION).

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Tomasz Pietas - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at LPEC

I'm a teacher and I use the solution for teaching and testing. 

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

I use the solution for personal use and in a professional environment. We use a couple of them. We use it to prepare environments to deploy them on another VM environment like VMware. We need to prepare the machine for the quality and we use this. 

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Kopano  Ramaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SmartCloud

We can use the solution to implement VMs.

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SG
Works

The primary use case of the solution is to develop, test, and deploy solutions on multi-software platforms so that users can use solutions on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh. This also will help users and groups to use the devices they are comfortable with and not depend on a specific platform. Users no need to wait for very powerful machines instead they can use their laptops or desktop to test or solve to see whether it really works or meet their needs. 

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

I primarily use the solution to build a machine and transfer it to vCenter. I also occasionally use it to transform from a VirtualBox machine to an ESXi machine.

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SJ
Managing Director

I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to provide my clients with performance, security, and scalability enhancements.

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

We use Oracle VM VirtualBox to run Linux operating systems in our environment.

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Christophe JOBARD - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Direction GRID SAS

I use it because my desktop is on Linux, and sometimes I need to open Microsoft Office or some VPN, which cannot use Linux. I start my VM Windows just to connect to some VPNs or to launch Microsoft Office.

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Uwem John Etim - PeerSpot reviewer
Adjunct Professor at a university with 501-1,000 employees

I use Oracle Virtualbox to create different virtual operating systems, including Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Windows, and Metasploit.

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TD
IT Architect - AI at CGI

We use this solution to quickly set up and test our new software releases on different operating system versions.

We used this for onboarding applications running on smaller equipment, as we noticed that it uses less resouces compared to other hypervisor systems.

This helped our passengers to get better services while travelling, such as entertainment, movies, games, details about the trip, et cetera.

The images used can easily be shipped with the onboard hardware.

We can also port or convert other types of images too.

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

My personal one is to create virtual machines to do different things within the house. I have a few servers in the house, and the servers themselves run lots of the services that we need, but sometimes you need to have a service that is run on a kind of a "dedicated machine." So, instead of having a physical machine to run those services, we just create a virtual one. It just spins off like a virtual machine, and everything works okay. Some of the machines that are for more home automation and other such things don't need very powerful processes or much memory. They are very suitable to be run on virtual machines. They can have their own IP addresses and can be reached from the outside of the home.

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WS
Product Specialist at Schoemans Technologies

We use VirtualBox for running our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and a host of websites. The underlying operating system is Solaris, which we run on VirtualBox virtualized, and it is running exceptionally well. Then I run VirtualBox as a hypervisor and use Windows (when necessary) and Linux. I run a whole host of websites on Linux virtualized using VirtualBox and we also run our ERP — Xpert ERP — on VirtualBox.

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

My main purpose in using this solution is to run Windows machines on top of my Linux servers. I am running a Windows server on top of a Linux machine and then another four machines just to create an environment for our clients so that people can log in. Because they don't find Linux easy to use, I give them windows on top which they find more familiar.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

The primary use case is creation and management of virtual machines in small network environments.

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

I use this solution for experiments with virtualization in Linux, mostly.

We have an on-premises deployment.

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Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at Human Code

We primarily use the solution for virtual machines for Oracle databases.

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LS
Manager at Private Individual

My primary use of the solution is for testing distributions and installations. 

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ST
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees

I use it for experimenting with different operating systems in user environments. I also use it to have a backup to the Windows so that I can access Windows, and it is up and running. I don't have to worry about building a system from scratch.

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Jetsada Malaisirirat - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at clusterkit

I use this for development tests only on my personal laptop.

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SP
Systems Engineering at Atlantica Digital

I use Oracle VM VirtualBox mainly for testing guest environments and to test beta machines before they go in production environment. I also simulate configuration before the production environment to test some optionality.

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

We have two primary use cases. We have one or two data bases. We were using it for our hospitality system and also for testing.

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PA
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use Oracle VM VirtualBox for testing.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is like a virtual machine.

it helps to run multiple operating systems.

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IS
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE

I use it to test new technologies on my desktop. I also teach virtual machines, so I give demos or training programs. I can show people how servers work. So I use it for training purposes.

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

We are using Oracle VM VirtualBox to virtualize servers.

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VC
Sr. Director at LogiCorner Info Tech.

We use Oracle VM VirtualBox in combination with Oracle Database. We also run Tomcat inside VirtualBox.

Within our organization, there are five people using this solution. 

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

We use VirtualBox for client purposes. It's a legacy software.

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GM
student with 11-50 employees

I am running Linux on this solution under Windows.

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OS
IT Infrastructure and Security Specialist

For enterprise deployment, IT infrastructure, data center and server virtualization infrastructure.

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it_user801585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at Oriental Weavers

We primarily use the solution across all of our systems.

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BP
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution to test our virtual infrastructure.

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NS
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oracle VM VirtualBox allows me to extend my existing computer to run multiple operating systems.

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it_user836373 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

We use this solution for virtualization.

This is a private cloud deployment model.

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