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DxEnterprise vs Hyper-V comparison

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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 (6th)
Hyper-V
Ranking in Server Virtualization Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
146
Ranking in other categories
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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the mindshare of DxEnterprise is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hyper-V is 17.4%, up from 15.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Server Virtualization Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Hyper-V17.4%
DxEnterprise0.7%
Other81.9%
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…
Marcelo Siqueira - PeerSpot reviewer
Especialista de Infraestrutura at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Virtualization has improved proactive maintenance and observability for complex clustered workloads
Hyper-V could be improved in terms of performance of live migrations. I notice that in VMware, vMotion, which is the same concept as live migration, is faster than in Hyper-V. It is not that it does not work, but in terms of performance, VMware ends up being better for these virtual machine moves.I do not think there is anything else I would like to add regarding necessary improvements related to the interface, stability, or support. The interface is great and very intuitive. Support is also very quick and functional from Microsoft when a problem occurs. Once the environment is very well configured, there should not be problems in Hyper-V. The main area I would improve is mostly the performance of virtual machine migrations. If this migration performance were improved, I believe Hyper-V would reach a perfect score.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Customer service is excellent and technical support is excellent."
"Customer service has been excellent so far and technical support has been very helpful, quickly resolving any issues we encountered."
"I find the quick provision feature in Hyper-V to be extremely helpful."
"I would advise customers that are Microsoft users to use Hyper-V if they want to have more cost-efficiency."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The best hypervisor in the market!"
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The price of this solution makes it a worthwhile purchase for our organization and we have all of the features we need within a cost-effective solution."
"The performance is very good."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
 

Cons

"The interface can seem a little old school at times."
"Upgrading from DxDev to DxEnterprise was a bit more bumpy, but even that was pretty easy to do."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"Customer Service: 5/10. Technical Support: It's 5/10 as it is like a lotto, you never know who you will get on other side."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"All the actions are manual, and if customization is needed, it is difficult with Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is nothing extra required for Hyper-V apart from the licenses that one purchases to use Microsoft Windows."
"Once we bought the datacenter version of the server, we did away with worrying about the cost of licensing our VMs separately"
"Hyper-V is part of Windows Server, so there are no extra costs for the product."
"The pricing is not much. We have a very big environment, and pricing is no problem."
"There is a license to use this solution and it is an annual purchase."
"Since we have an agreement with Microsoft, the solution is not very expensive."
"Licensing needs to be a lot easier to manage with Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware is easier."
"The product is a bit expensive, but it is worth the money."
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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

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Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business70
Midsize Enterprise37
Large Enterprise47
 

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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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