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 solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"The performance is very good."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"I like the functionality."
"It's a very manageable product."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"I am not very sure about how flexible Citrix Hypervisor is with different types of infrastructures. I only know it is flexible with Nutanix, but I am not sure if it is also flexible with others. They can make its integration with other platforms or OEMs easy. They should also make it easy for users to manage their infrastructure. Citrix should make compatibility information related to a hypervisor easily available in a datasheet. Citrix isn't really recognized in this part of the world, and they need to expand their solution and make it more available. There are a lot of customers and companies that are looking for a solution like Citrix, and it should be available in this part of the world. They need to educate people more. Technically, it is good and flexible and has good ability, but it is not as much known as VMware or Microsoft. Their support should also be improved. Currently, if you don't have an updated version, they will not give you the attention."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"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 could provide more tools to help the client manage the solution because we need to build our own tools in some cases. Everything is available through PowerShell, but then you need to build your own scripts to do the more advanced work."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Hyper-V is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs and minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance". 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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Hyper-V report.
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