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 works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"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."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The documentation is very good."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"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."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
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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