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.
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"I like the functionality."
"It's a stable product."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"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."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"It is easy to use."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"The cost can be better."
"The cost could always be lower."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
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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