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 is highly stable."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The solution is stable."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between storage and compute services."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"The most valuable part of Nutanix is its centralized management of everything."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV Virtualization is the user-friendly environment. The integration, implementation, and training for the solution are good."
"The setup is efficient."
"The storage features and volume system are great."
"Nutanix AHV's most valuable feature is NetFlow."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"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."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"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."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Nutanix misses alerts sometimes."
"In terms of improvement, I think that they could have more partnerships with providers."
"My storage use is doubled; if I am creating a one TB virtual machine then my storage policy will take two TB from my cluster."
"The solution is very expensive."
"If we have to opt for a high level of capacity planning and need more analytics—like deciding on new purchases or budgeting, or if we need additional resources in the near future—we need to pay for Prism Central. I would suggest that Nutanix improve a bit on the analytics part of Prism Element so we can calculate those kinds of things within that flavor."
"The technical support for this solution needs to be improved in terms of response time."
"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."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 44 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, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM. See our Hyper-V vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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