We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It's a stable product."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The features that I have found most valuable include its HA facility, viability, robustness, flexibility, it's time to go live is very short, and it has a friendly user interface."
"The most valuable feature is the one-click to update the firmware and software."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Acropolis AOS are ease of management, hyper-convergence platform, and it has robust operations."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"It is easy to use. One of the things they have as a design goal is to reduce complexity and simplify things."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features that can be found, is the inclusion of a hypervisor for free."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Regarding third-party backup solutions, the only agentless option is Commvault, which is expensive, complex, and requires intensive vendor training."
"It's lacking in some features but overcompensating in others."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"Nutanix can be a bit complex to understand."
"In the licensing, it needs to be clear about features because it is not clear whether Flow is integrated or not."
"There should be a little more access to Nutanix files."
"They need to improve the look and feel of the interface. The functionality is fine, but the appearance could be better."
"This solution offers excellent functionality but could use a stronger interface."
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Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 192 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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