IT Manager at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2019-10-10T09:25:00Z
Oct 10, 2019
Right now I am mainly using the free versions of the solutions. I'm not ready to spend a lot because I don't have too many machines. I do not qualify to be charged yet. So I've never worried too much about the pricing because most of my pricing is academic for the machines at school. But even being a school, I have a special agreement with Microsoft.
Hello community,
I work at a large wholesale company and am researching Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise and Oracle VM Premier.
What are the differences and similarities between the two? What are the pros and cons of each product?
Thanks for the help!
Proxmox VE is a very fast and powerful solution. It offers feature-rich virtualization, has open-standards compliance, and also includes redundancy and failover capabilities. What I like about Proxmox VE is that it lets you rack and stack two or more nodes and enables you to be up and running with a one-node failure tolerance in very little time. Proxmox VE’s integration with ZFS is also fantastic. It allows you to create pools to store your VM images and data on very easily and their great web UI makes it easy to check drive health, ZFS scrub status, and other things. I think the best part of the web UI is that everything is configurable from the web user interface without having to use the command line. It also has graphs and additional visualizations so you can evaluate the performance of everything. Beyond that, even though you can use Proxmox VE on a single server, the solution makes it easy to set up a high availability cluster on multiple hosts if needed.
Regarding Oracle VM VirtualBox, I would say its most valuable features are its virtualization, its compatibility with older OSes, and its testing of environments without causing interruptions or any harm to production. Besides making it possible to run multiple VMs on a laptop or desktop, its ease of deployment makes the solution appealing. Not only is it easy to set up, but the software is free. Moreover, it has a nice interface. However, I think Oracle VM VirtualBox could use some improvements on its reporting as well as on its network settings for VMs, which can sometimes be hard for the average user to find and understand.
Conclusion: While Oracle is a safe and excellent option when it comes to virtualizing an operating system, I would suggest Proxmox VE because it is newer, has a lot of powerful features, and is a very reliable and stable solution.
IT Support and Network Admin at Escuela Carlos Pereyra
Jan 12, 2022
Proxmox = professional environments (any size).
VirtualBox = small environments or test purpose
Sorry for the short response but it is exactly like that.
We're still dealing with POCs. In the future, if it works okay, we'll try it in a larger environment.
The solution is free.
The license I use is free.
There are no licensing fees.
This is an open-source product and it can be used free of charge.
It is pretty good for the price, which is free.
We use the solution for free. We don't have to pay for licensing.
The pricing is lower for VirtualBox. It's much cheaper than VMware, for example, which has very high pricing in comparison.
The product is absolutely free to use.
Right now I am mainly using the free versions of the solutions. I'm not ready to spend a lot because I don't have too many machines. I do not qualify to be charged yet. So I've never worried too much about the pricing because most of my pricing is academic for the machines at school. But even being a school, I have a special agreement with Microsoft.
We're satisfied with the pricing the solution offers.
I do not have experience with the pricing or licensing of the product.
Pricing does not apply for us, we do not have to pay for the service.
It is a very cost-effective solution.