We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV Virtualization based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Hyper-V came out on top in this comparison. It is easy to manage and customize, and has very low resource usage, resulting in very little downtime. It is robust, stable, and provides many desired next-generation features. As a Microsoft product, it integrates well with many solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem, in addition to many other popular third-party solutions.
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The solution has good scalability."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"Nutanix AHV Virtualization has good performance and can be used for backup and disaster."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the built-in data protection, that helps with backup in a matter of minutes."
"You don't need any other instruments for control, AHV. You only need to look at the prism to control all infrastructure."
"The setup is efficient."
"It is the simple non-consideration we get with this product that's great. It just works."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The management console needs to improve to make it easier for administrators. For example, to be able to reorganize our VMs, folders, and subfolders, similarly as it is provided in VMware. We can sort, manage, and organize VMs, folders, or subfolders in VMware."
"Lacks integration with the cloud or other solutions."
"The initial installation is complex. It took approximately four days."
"Some companies do not support AHV."
"I would like to see better decompression or degrouping of the VMs so that we can use a single number of SQLs with two servers. We don't need a huge number of DXSPs."
"The solution should work to improve its stability."
"There is no web interface with AHV."
"VMware does tend to have more features than AHV. It's more of the leader in this space."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix AHV Virtualization 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 AHV Virtualization writes "Lightweight, integrates well, and the technical support is responsive". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV. See our Hyper-V vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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