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DxEnterprise vs Hyper-V comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

DxEnterprise
Ranking in Server Virtualization Software
22nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
High Availability Clustering (7th)
Hyper-V
Ranking in Server Virtualization Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
145
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of DxEnterprise is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hyper-V is 19.1%, up from 14.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Server Virtualization Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Hyper-V19.1%
DxEnterprise0.2%
Other80.7%
Server Virtualization Software
 

Featured Reviews

it_user609366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Initial setup was relatively straightforward for a clustering solution.
SQL patching High availability We were looking for a better-than-Microsoft-SQL clustering solution. The interface can seem a little old school at times. By Old School, I simply mean from a graphics perspective it looks like word 97, not word 2013. I have used it for three years. The team from…
Tomas Basus - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Professional at NIPOS
Virtualization has reduced licensing costs and improved integration but still needs better performance insight
Integrations bring the biggest benefit to us. We use half of our virtual machines that are Microsoft, so it works better hosted in Hyper-V compared to VMware. Clustering and failover capabilities in the product help with our availability. It helped because we switched to Hyper-V because it was lower cost than paying for high availability in VMware. We need Microsoft licenses for virtual machines, so it costs less than buying two solutions for that. We have data center editions, so it did not cost us additional money compared to paying for high availability from VMware. I think it helped a little, but not so different compared to VMware regarding security and bandwidth optimization.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Customer service has been excellent so far and technical support has been very helpful, quickly resolving any issues we encountered."
"Customer service is excellent and technical support is excellent."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control and administration view as well, directly benefiting the products and services offered on the platform and allowing customers to increase or decrease resources on their workloads at any given time while reducing their costs."
"It is very easy to install, and it can be done in a day."
"Great Hypervisor with snapshot capability, and fail over clustering integration."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
 

Cons

"Upgrading from DxDev to DxEnterprise was a bit more bumpy, but even that was pretty easy to do."
"The interface can seem a little old school at times."
"P2V are not live, and there's some limitation on max hard drive space for VMs and the ability to recover VHD file space after files within the VM have been deleted."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now."
"They could turn it into a product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things, and you have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it."
"To manage Windows Hyper-V Server 2012, you need an additional server 2012 server."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use. I find, for example, Citrix to be much less difficult."
"For Hyper-V, the copy and paste function could be improved."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a license required to use Hyper-V and there are bundle packages you can purchase making it cheaper than other solutions, such as VMware. Additionally, if there is a lot of guest OS that requires Windows, then Microsoft becomes cheaper."
"Hyper-V is more cost-effective for the size of our business One of the Hyper-V's biggest advantages over VMware is the cost. We are a small business, so Hyper-V allowed us to virtualize everything we need without breaking the bank."
"The price is quite fair. It is not too expensive."
"It's cheap, but not the best."
"It's not expensive."
"Microsoft recently tacked on a higher price for their software to use the storage migration in the Storage Spaces Direct array. That was just terrible."
"It comes with all the features and goodies inside the box, so you do not have to purchase anything else."
"There is nothing extra required for Hyper-V apart from the licenses that one purchases to use Microsoft Windows."
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Comparison Review

it_user234735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant, ASEAN at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
May 10, 2015
Hyper-V 2012 R2 vs. VMware vSphere 5.5
I was won with Hyper-V 2012R2 recently and the table below based on customer RFP (edited). This articles all about technical, there is not related with TCO/ROI, licensing cost, “political”, etc. Another to noted is the Windows Server 2012 licenses is based on 2 socket CPU, meanwhile…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business70
Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise46
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Hyper-V?
The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy.
 

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Sample Customers

Asante, Eversheds, Vecima Networks, W&W AFCO Steel, City of Aurora, Menigo, Linn County Sheriff's Office
Large customer base from all industries, all over the world. Two major Hyper-V customers are Telefonica and EmpireCLS.
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