We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Hyper-V based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Citrix Hypervisor comes out on top in this comparison. According to reviews, it appears to be a more secure and lightweight solution than Hyper-V.
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"It is a stable product."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"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."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Hyper-V is rated 8.0. 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 Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Hyper-V report.
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