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."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"Storage via SMB3."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"It could be more scalable."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
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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