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 like the functionality."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"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."
"It is stable."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"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."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"The product offers good stability."
"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."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"Support for the product is not good enough."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
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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