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.
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The initial setup is easy."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"The cost can be better."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
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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