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.
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"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."
"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."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"It is stable."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"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."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Hyper-V is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". 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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