We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware VSphere is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to deploy, reliable, robust, and has excellent customer support. Hyper-V does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"It helps us build servers."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"When it comes to cross-regional (e.g., someone in the US managing the China vSphere implementations), it can be a somewhat slow. I would recommend increasing the speed. While there has already been improvement there, I would like to see more."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. 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 VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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