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 solution's technical support is the best."
"The interface is quite good."
"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."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The performance is very good."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The scalability has been good."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
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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