We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The most valuable aspect of Nutanix is the performance of the storage, which is excellent. And controlling compute, storage, the network, and security all together in one box is very efficient for us. It gives us a single platform to manage our all infrastructure."
"A great feature involves real-time hardware changes."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"This is a very flexible solution that you are able to run however you want."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"It is all-in-one. The compute processing, storage, and network altogether make it convenient. We don't have to have different modules for expansion."
"Simplified management: It provides us more time to work on other tasks."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS makes it easy to use and manage projects and it has a good reputation."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It would be great if they could improve the GUI features."
"One of the very important things that I would like to see in Nutanix, but I'm not sure if it's in the roadmap or not, is to have some kind of caching optimization at remote sites, to build active-active data centers more easily."
"We would like to see it support other systems outside of the compute stack from which it was built."
"The one note of improvement I have for Nutanix is that the installation should be easier."
"I would like better integration of XenServer into the AOS and Prism Central."
"There is a feature that exists used for disaster recovery, but it requires an extra license. It should be included with the regular normal standard license."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"I would like to see a fuller integration with the public cloud. It would help the user enter the hybrid cloud infrastructure."
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Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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 Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VM, whereas Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Dell PowerFlex.
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