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 provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"I like the functionality."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It's a stable product."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures."
"The product is very easy to install."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
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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