We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, Hyper-V, and Oracle VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"It's a stable product."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"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."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The stability is rock solid."
"I find that the features in Citrix Hypervisor are not as rich as with VMware. It would be a benefit if they had some of the other features VMware has, such as the ability to expand a drive on the fly. You do not have to take down the machine to do it but in Citrix you do."
"The interface has to be updated."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"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."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"Something that could be improved are the snapshots that go in the ZFS Storage. If you want to enjoy Oracle VM, you will definitely want it to go together with ZFS Storage to maximize on the snapshot facility."
"The configuration can be more flexible. It is a necessity."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"Deployment should be simplified."
"The pricing could be cheaper. It is very pricey."
