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.
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"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."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"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."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
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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