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."The initial setup is very easy."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The solution is highly stable."
"It is good for small installations."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"Data locality provides super-fast data access and ultra-low latency."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"The most valuable features are simple management and one-click upgrades."
"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 addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"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."
"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."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"The pricing of the solution is too high. It needs to be adjusted or lowered to be more competitive."
"USB dongle-based licenses do not allow us to directly locate the USB ports on Nutanix."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"In the next release, I would like better and more competitive pricing."
"In the future, I would like to see multi-tenancy in Nutanix Acropolis AOS."
"I would enjoy an advanced mode where experienced users can leverage their knowledge to do advanced things currently only allowed using the command line tools on the CVM."
"We have a team that does the implementation of the solution for our customers, it is better to have professionals handle the process."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
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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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