We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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."We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"Nutanix AHV works really well. It's much easier to administer and manage than VMware. Since we're not a large IT department within the finance sector, our team is relatively small. We don't have a huge team of IT professionals to manage all the other systems."
"The feature that has had the most impact is data locality. That is a feature that makes Nutanix different from other hypervisors. It helps us to get application performance that is probably double what we got with the legacy, three-tier architecture."
"The entirety of the infrastructure resides in the same product, which makes it easy to troubleshoot and investigate problems."
"The setup is efficient."
"It has a vs switch for the people who know Linux, in case it's easier for them to use AHV than it is to use VMware."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"Citrix could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The solution is only in English. It would be ideal if it was in Portuguese."
"Honestly, there's a lot to work on the product, especially for someone like me who has worked on VMware. VMware offers a significant level of customization when configuring virtual machines, and that level of detail is not as pronounced on Nutanix AHV Virtualization."
"To face no complications in our company, we had to switch off virtual machines one after the other before heading to Nutanix platform and going to edge services to switch off and turn off everything, making it a challenging process for me."
"There is room for improvement in the USB mapping."
"My storage use is doubled; if I am creating a one TB virtual machine then my storage policy will take two TB from my cluster."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
"If we have to opt for a high level of capacity planning and need more analytics—like deciding on new purchases or budgeting, or if we need additional resources in the near future—we need to pay for Prism Central. I would suggest that Nutanix improve a bit on the analytics part of Prism Element so we can calculate those kinds of things within that flavor."
"Some companies do not support AHV."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 48 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is rated 8.6. 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 Nutanix AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM and RHEV. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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