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 find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"It is a stable product."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"It's a stable product."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The product is very easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"Workloads; We use vSphere for mission-critical apps including SAP and and part of our internal development in C+, for the solution that collects everything for the buyers."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"The documentation is very good."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"I would like to see the UI incorporating all of the functionality that the thick client had."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
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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