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 the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The implementation process is simple."
"It is a stable product."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It helps us build servers."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
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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