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 have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It's a very manageable product."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"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."
"It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution. It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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