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.
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The performance is very good."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"It's a stable product."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"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."
"This product stands out for its user-friendly interface, intuitive design, and responsive UI. It offers AVH features comparable to Nutanix but at a more cost-effective price point."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The solution scales very well."
"The setup is efficient."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization has good performance and can be used for backup and disaster."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"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."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"The solution could improve the call logging system to HPE, it is a bit tedious."
"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."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see support for containerization."
"The initial installation is complex. It took approximately four days."
"Adding even more integrations would be an improvement."
"It worked well in the beginning but after using it for some time, we found some limitations in terms of compatibility with other software."
"The licensing costs are a little bit expensive."
"A lot of tasks cannot be performed using the GUI, the graphical interface."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 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, Oracle VM VirtualBox 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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