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.
"The solution has an easy setup."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"It's a very manageable product."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"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."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The support is excellent."
"The most valuable part of Nutanix is its centralized management of everything."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you don't need to pay for it, it's free, as opposed to paying for a VMware license."
"The feature that has had the most impact is data locality. That is a feature that makes Nutanix different from other hypervisors. It helps us to get application performance that is probably double what we got with the legacy, three-tier architecture."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"Nutanix AHV is very scalable. It can go to unlimited nodes."
"With AHV, you can run micro-segmentation, which is, on the network security level, to have network virtualization across clouds."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"An improvement would be for Nutanix AHV to support VMDK, AOS, Hyper-V, and VMware."
"In terms of improvement, I think that they could have more partnerships with providers."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved in terms of response time."
"It's not a very scalable product."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"It should focus on providing more detailed and helpful error messages. One area we'd like to see enhanced is better support for guest VMs, especially in a heterogeneous environment."
"Some companies do not support AHV."
"To face no complications in our company, we had to switch off virtual machines one after the other before heading to Nutanix platform and going to edge services to switch off and turn off everything, making it a challenging process for me."
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, KVM 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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