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 value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The performance is very good."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It helps us build servers."
"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 Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"It could be more scalable."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
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, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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