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."The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"In addition to the hyper-converged infrastructure, most of our clients are pleased with Acropolis' built-in replication in terms of the DR setup. Our clients also like Prism Central's advanced management and analytics, and many find Nutanix Flow and playbooks incredibly useful."
"Acropolis AOS is scalable to nodes and the cloud."
"Prism Central allows managing the cluster from a single pane of glass, and it allows a deeper dive into the solution."
"The level of statistical performance data that it can confirm in real-time is extremely useful. I can see what my VM’s hosts and guests are doing from a single pane of glass and identify issues before they would otherwise become apparent."
"The virtualization environment is now much easier to manage and maintain, there is only one vendor to call in case of issues and one single console to manage everything."
"We are suggesting Nutanix to the management because of scalability and time efficiency."
"The speed of the operations and of creation of VM is fantastic."
"The product is easy to manage."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"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."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"We ran into an issue as a managed service provider because Acropolis isn't designed to be used the way we are running it. For example, if we want to deploy a Kubernetes service, the customer networks need to reach our protected cluster network. We have isolated our customers in separate VLANs. However, our customers' networks must access our cluster network to get features like iSCSI or Kubernetes to run. It's challenging."
"The patch updates of Nutanix Acropolis could be improved. I'm work on the corporate side, but I get feedback from our IT team that patch updates and other updates are taking a significantly longer time. This definitely needs to be resolved. We are in discussion with Nutanix regarding certain configuration issues we are having, so maybe something can be changed to ease these patch updates."
"The cost of the solution is too expensive. There are other options, such as VMware, that are offered for less money. In Latin America, it seems to be overpriced for the market."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"Nutanix needs to improve network features like Passthrough – SR-IOV. It could be improved by supporting SR-IOV, if they had that support, I would not have needed to implement the VMWare vSAN."
"The name of the solutions offered by Nutanix does not indicate what the tool does."
"The price could be lower."
"The new features are not free. You need to pay for each feature."
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Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 29 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "What you might not know about Nutanix that makes it so unique". 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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