Oracle VirtualBox vs. VMware ESXi

Oracle VirtualBox

154 Reviews and Ratings

VMware ESXi

810 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle VirtualBox	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Oracle VirtualBox is an open source, cross-platform, virtualization software, enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device.	$0 per month
VMware ESXi	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle VirtualBox

VMware ESXi

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Pricing Offerings
Oracle VirtualBox	VMware ESXi
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Oracle VirtualBox	VMware ESXi
Considered Both Products	Oracle Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox I have used VMware ESXi for the purpose of running virtual productions servers. It's a different use case from VirtualBox, but they can be compared in some aspects: - Both have room for improvement in UI - but VBox is somewhat more intuitive - Both have decent performance in … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Bongard Senior IT Support Technician in Information Technology at Global Financial Credit, LLC (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox It's much more useful than VMware Workstation Player because you can't edit anything at all with that free version of vmWare. This is just about as capable as VMware Fusion and Workstation until you pay even more to use vSphere, and then you start having enterprise features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox Since OracleBox can do most of what VMware can, but free, the benefit is obvious. The quick set up and tear down are also a huge benefit. I chose Oracle VM VirtualBox for these reasons primarily, but there are countless others too. I would definitely say that this is the way to … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom James Jakimowicz Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Synergy Fiber (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi At the time we did our comparison we found that VMware scaled much better than Hyper-V, lighter weight, and much more reliable. My recommendation if Hyper-V is needed for anything such as Windows containers, is to use nested virtualization and installing Windows Hyper-V within … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Sen System Administrator in Information Technology at CNM LLP (Accounting, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi Compared to VirtualBox, VMware ESXi feels a lot more enterprise-grade when comparing the two. As ESXi is a VMware product we knew the level of quality and support we would receive from the vendor. VirtualBox is an open-source platform for virtualization and we liked the fact … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi Building and operating in a virtual environment would be impossible without a reliable and efficient virtualization platform, such as VMware and Hyper-V. Before deciding which platform to choose for conducting your business operations, consider the differences in VMware and Hype… Incentivized Helpful? Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Pace Supply (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees) Chose VMware ESXi ESXi is hands down the winner when compared to its competitors, in terms of technical capability. VMware has maintained its leadership role in virtualization technology. Hypervisors from Microsoft, Oracle, Citrix pales in every way when compared to ESXi. Have you ever heard … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware ESXi We used Oracle VM VirtualBox for sandbox and local testing. It is not a HyperVisor, but a virtualization platform. It requires a Host OS to install on. When we implemented VMWare ESXi, the cost of Citrix Hypervisor was more, and Hyper-V was still in its infancy. Ultimately the … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Pachyderm Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware ESXi While all of the above hypervisors have their pros and cons, ESXi has the advantages of being free, well supported by the community, easy to setup, easy to use, and good hardware support. Incentivized Helpful? CHRIS ROGERS CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at All IT Solutions Inc. (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware ESXi I have worked with several other virtual machine platforms such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle VM VirtualBox and find not only the ESXi is a better platform for us, ESXi also seems to be easier once you have learned the basics. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Oracle VirtualBox

VMware ESXi

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Oracle VirtualBox and VMware ESXi
Feature	Oracle VirtualBox 8.2 50 Ratings	VMware ESXi 8.2 128 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	8.036 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Management console	8.846 Ratings	9.0128 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	8.236 Ratings	8.0112 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	7.033 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.029 Ratings	8.0117 Ratings

User Ratings
	Oracle VirtualBox	VMware ESXi
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (53 ratings)	9.0 (129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (7 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (55 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	5.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)