We performed a comparison between Hyper-V, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"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 easy to configure."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"It helps us build servers."
"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 flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"I appreciate the network passcode feature in KVM, as it provides a convenient way to manage DNS and cloud hosting."
"I think nine out of the ten supercomputers in the world use Linux KVM, so I think that attests to the fact that it is a scalable product."
"Very cost-effective."
"Scaling the solution is easy. You just have to add more hardware."
"It is easy to use, stable, and flexible. It is a pretty mature product, and it is faster than VirtualBox."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"A very reliable solution which can be used for x86 architecture virtualization with reasonable overhead."
"I find the density of the product most valuable. It is density that a technologist can just assign page merging. This is what makes KVM one of the important players of the virtualization market."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"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."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"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."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"Support for VF is needed, where you can, for example, export from VMware to KVM."
"The KVM tech support is really bad. They are not very responsive."
"The networking with wireless devices needs improvement."
"In our setup, we do not have any dashboards or orchestration, and it is hard to manage. We have 25 gig network cards, but the software driver we have only supported 10 gigs."
"The only negative aspect of needing hardware support is a fully functional KVM can be dropped. It would be nice if the support for other platforms, like ARM or Risk, were as good as the x86 one. However, with the democratization of Chromebooks based on these chips and mobile devices, it will not take long for that to happen."
"I have encountered difficulties in getting the tool's documentation."
"Lacks high availability across clusters as well as support for Apache CloudStack."
"KVM is very difficult to manage and run on daily operations."
"The installation is difficult and could be improved."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
