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.
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"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."
"Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The installation was straightforward."
"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."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It is a stable product."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"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."
"Citrix Hypervisor is expensive if you get it as a stand-alone product, so this is one area for improvement. Its price could be cheaper. We also found other areas for improvement in Citrix Hypervisor, for example, we can't use SCIM provisioning, and there are limitations to the size of the HDD. Another area for improvement is the pass-through storage, in particular the removable storage, because that also has limitations where you can't connect to the drive if it is more than one TB."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"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."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"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."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 8 reviews while Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Hyper-V is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "An easy-to-use solution with virtualization features that helped during lockdown". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Hyper-V report.
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