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 product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The solution is highly stable."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"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."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
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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