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's technical support is the best."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It is a stable product."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"Nutanix's customer support is good, one of its biggest selling points."
"The solution scales very well."
"The feature that has had the most impact is data locality. That is a feature that makes Nutanix different from other hypervisors. It helps us to get application performance that is probably double what we got with the legacy, three-tier architecture."
"In terms of features, Acropolis is a good virtualization manager and that it is on-premise. I use almost every technology they provide."
"The dashboard of the solution is one of its strongest points."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix AHV is the prism, it is a beneficial central management console."
"It is a stable solution. I haven't faced stability issues in the solution."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see support for containerization."
"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."
"There is no web interface for AHV."
"The software based controller has high consumption. This could be improved."
"To face no complications in our company, we had to switch off virtual machines one after the other before heading to Nutanix platform and going to edge services to switch off and turn off everything, making it a challenging process for me."
"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."
"The solution should work to improve its stability."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while Nutanix AHV Virtualization is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 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, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Nutanix AHV Virtualization is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor and RHEV. See our Hyper-V vs. Nutanix AHV Virtualization report.
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