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.
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up."
"The initial setup is easy."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"There's a learning curve, especially for those coming from a Microsoft background. Setting it up and managing it can introduce some complexity."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"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."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
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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