We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"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."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the resource management from the OVM Manager."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use. You can spin one up when you need to and then shut it down."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"Oracle VM needs to add a backup feature."
"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."
"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."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"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."
"Its database management features could be better."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and VMware Workstation, whereas Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Proxmox VE and IBM PowerVM. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM report.
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