We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"It allows us to have a cloud-based ecosystem."
"Performing a Nutanix software upgrade is a very simple and non-disruptive process."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"Most beneficial feature is simplicity, ease of use."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"In terms of scalability, adding a number of nodes, I find that it will not be any issues."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"In the future, I would like Acropolis to add support for publishing external storage."
"NCI's pricing is expensive."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"There are other services that Nutanix has that could be improved, but I'm not very familiar with the other services of Nutanix, such as Era and Flow. However, they seem a bit hard for us to implement and integrate with the Nutanix Acropolis AOS and other Nutanix tools. We would not dare to implement those other Nutanix solutions into Nutanix Acropolis AOS right now. The implementation of that tool could be the problem, I am a bit hesitant to implement the other tools into Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"It would be great if it could emulate some of the features that their competitor VMware has, for example port mirroring or Netflow output at hypervisor level."
"The storage and back-up facilities could be improved. We need day-to-day encrypting of the database."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"It does not have good backup feature tools, like having templates or being able to back up every two or three days."
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Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 3rd in HCI with 194 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Proxmox VE.
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