Oracle at it again with good and powerful products
August 10, 2021
Oracle at it again with good and powerful products
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle VM VirtualBox
We used Oracle's solution to simulate environments and test future changes, updates, and patches on our software. We also used it for training sessions in order not to disturb production environments, while still simulating the real world with exact OS and SW versions.
VirtualBox made our testing way cheaper, easy, and less punitive because if anything went wrong we could simply revert to a past snapshot and document the results.
- Virtualization
- Testing of environments with any harm to production
- Compatibility with older OS
- User interface feels like I'm really using some 00's software
- VM configurations are clumsy and hard to follow if you don't have much experience
- Less hardware spent on testing and staging environments
- Keeping multiple OS snapshots was really helpful to compare before/after scenarios
Oracle's solution is entirely free, although a bit clumsy and visually outdated. Hyper-V can and will be a better match due to having more resources, offering full Microsoft Support, and being focused mainly on corporative uses, but for a small environment, it can be like killing an ant with a missile. So in those scenarios, VirtualBox will be a really good option.
Do you think Oracle VM VirtualBox delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Oracle VM VirtualBox's feature set?
Yes
Did Oracle VM VirtualBox live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Oracle VM VirtualBox go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Oracle VM VirtualBox again?
Yes