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."I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"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."
"It is a good solution and it is easy to work on their platform."
"This is a complete, very user-friendly product."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't had any issues."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"There are a lot of things I really like. Perhaps the best part is taking a snapshot of a virtual machine. It's very quick. Another useful part is replication and creating a protection domain: using the protection feature to replicate a machine to a remote site for DR purposes."
"One-Click Upgrade and Foundation is the most valuable feature. One-Click Upgrade makes upgrades and LCM a breeze. Prior to Nutanix One-Click Upgrade, upgrades and LCM were overly cumbersome and time-consuming. Foundation provides an easy, yet very structured, approach to cluster modification (adding or removing nodes)."
"It is very easy to clone systems using the solution."
"It's easy to use and has a very smooth onboarding process."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"AHV is a great hypervisor but still limited compared to VMware. AHV is the one product they must improve."
"One thing to keep in mind is that only experts can use it. It has to be in the proper hands, instead of going to XYZ people just for some cost savings. So lift-and-shift and migrations might be tricky, because it is not like a VMware."
"The licensing cost could be lower."
"Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure lacks compatibility with certain older processors."
"Limits on increasing space with the inability to have or attach external storage."
"We'd like to have more resource management."
"Nutanix could streamline Acropolis' advanced management to keep pace with its competitors. For example, in VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, you can directly put a host into maintenance mode via the GUI. However, it takes several steps to do this with Nutanix Acropolis, and you need to use the command-line interface for most of the steps."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
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Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd 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, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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