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.
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"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 onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The interface is quite good."
"The performance is very good."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The interface has to be updated."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 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 "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". 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, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Hyper-V report.
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