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.
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"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 initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"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."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
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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