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.
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"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."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"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."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"The price could be better."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
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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