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 solution is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The solution has good scalability."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"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."
"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 storage features and volume system are great."
"Integration is the most valuable feature of the product."
"The initial setup of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is straightforward."
"It's user-friendly."
"With AHV, you can run micro-segmentation, which is, on the network security level, to have network virtualization across clouds."
"Nutanix AHV virtualization requires little disk size for a huge number of servers. We can do everything from a single dashboard, monitoring performance, and single-task boxes."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"The solution could improve the call logging system to HPE, it is a bit tedious."
"It would be better if the solution's replication to another site could be efficiently optimized."
"If you want to install a specific operating system, you must first check to see if it is listed in the compatibility list; only then will you be able to install it, and that is one issue for now."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"The price of Nutanix AHV Virtualization could improve."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"I would like to see more automation of Day One operations, such as DRS, and HA."
"The solution should work to improve its stability."
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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