We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor, KVM, and VMware vSphere 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."
"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."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"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 most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"Good screen and keyboard sharing feature."
"The initial setup was simple."
"I appreciate the network passcode feature in KVM, as it provides a convenient way to manage DNS and cloud hosting."
"It is easy to use, stable, and flexible. It is a pretty mature product, and it is faster than VirtualBox."
"KVM is stable."
"Our production servers are running in Linux, and this solution supports that environment well."
"It offers a high-availability environment."
"The tool comes with scale-out capabilities. Deploying new infrastructure became much quicker, saving significant time previously spent sourcing hardware for each installation. It also has the ability to downscale on rack spaces, reducing the number of rack units needed to accommodate our servers."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"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 product must provide better performance monitoring features."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"The KVM tech support is really bad. They are not very responsive."
"The virtual manager and the graphical QEMU for KVM need some improvement."
"We still occasionally build Interlaced Wireless Protection within our environment. The ecosystem entails areas, where we support agents, and release backup and security solutions. Collaboration with independent software vendors (ITOLs or ITOLED) is necessary to offer these solutions to customers. However, the scope of the ecosystem in KVM is not as extensive as that of VMware's. In contrast, VMware boasts a robust partner network, allowing for comprehensive customer solutions. On the other hand, KVM’s ecosystem is comparatively limited in comparison. I would like to see FT features in KVM."
"The solution should be more user friendly. We are struggling with the command lines."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"Some things are pretty basic, and they could be more robust with more detail."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."