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 is an affordable platform."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It's easy to use."
"The fact that you can use all the CPU and memory power that the server can provide is most valuable. In a physical server, you might end up not using all the physical resources. There are a lot of benefits, such as flexibility and mobility, in virtualizing computes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"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."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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