We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV Virtualization based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Hyper-V came out on top in this comparison. It is easy to manage and customize, and has very low resource usage, resulting in very little downtime. It is robust, stable, and provides many desired next-generation features. As a Microsoft product, it integrates well with many solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem, in addition to many other popular third-party solutions.
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution has good scalability."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The solution scales very well."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"The interface is very good, and quite user-friendly."
"This solution is very stable and it has been running for the last three months, with no issues."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization is a private cloud platform offering integration with various public cloud providers. This integration allows for a multi-cloud approach. In my opinion, Nutanix AHV Virtualization's strength is its storage. It innovates and excels in the hyper-converged storage segment, making it the number one choice in this area."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"The management console needs to improve to make it easier for administrators. For example, to be able to reorganize our VMs, folders, and subfolders, similarly as it is provided in VMware. We can sort, manage, and organize VMs, folders, or subfolders in VMware."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"They need to work on the deployment of virtual machines. They need to streamline the process of templates and deploying virtual machines."
"The solution can be pricey."
"The solution could improve the call logging system to HPE, it is a bit tedious."
"The initial installation is complex. It took approximately four days."
"It should focus on providing more detailed and helpful error messages. One area we'd like to see enhanced is better support for guest VMs, especially in a heterogeneous environment."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV. See our Hyper-V vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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