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.
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
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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